Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79.
Troy
By EvenusTranslated by C. Merivale
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Have worn their pride away;
I am that Ilion of whom men have read
In Homer’s living lay.
My brazen bulwark shake;
But in the voice of nations loud and clear
My monument I make.