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The Founder of Rome
Here is the brisker, more businesslike Dryden treatment of the same passage:
Great queen, what you command me to relate
  A 5th-century portrait of Virgil from the Vergilius Romanus |
Renews the sad remembrance of our fate:
An empire from its old foundations rent
And every woe the Trojans underwent;
A peopled city made a desert place;
All that I saw and part of which I was
Not e'en the hardest of our foes could hear,
Nor stern Ulysses tell, without a tear.
And now the latter watch of wasting night,
And setting stars to kindly rest invite.
And now the new Fagles:
