Hey, how come?

                            Why do these

Poor things long so to go back to the light up there?

                               The poor souls

How can they crave our daylight so?

Dialogue of Aeneas and Anchises

Virgil

Aeneid, Book VI

19 BC 

op. post.

i    David Ferry

     Bewilderment: New Poems

       and Translations

     op. cit.

     

ii   Robert Fitzgerald

      Random House, 1983©