The whole damn ranch

                                  Elsewhere Anchises,

          Fatherly and intent, was off in a deep green valley

          Surveying and reviewing souls consigned there,

          Those due to pass to the light of the upper world.

          It so happened he was just then taking note

          Of his whole posterity, the destinies and doings,

          Traits and qualities of descendants dear to him,

          But seeing Aeneas come wading through the grass

          Towards him, he reached his two hands out

          In eager joy, his eyes filled up with tears

          And he gave a cry: 

                             At last! Are you here at last?

          I always trusted that your sense of right

          Would prevail and keep you going to the end ..

Virgil

Aeneid

  Book VI 

  916 et seq.

op. posth.  

ca 29-19 BC

Seamus Heaney

  translation

op. posth.

Faber & Faber, 2016©

Ivan Terestchenko

  photography

2010