Excerpt from The Jubilee of the Constitution

When in the epic fable of the first of Roman Poets, the Goddess mother of ?neas delivers to him the celestial armour, with which he is to triumph over his enemy, and to lay the foundations of Imperial Rome, he is represented as gazing with intense but confused delight on the crested helm that vomits golden fires -

"His hands the fatal sword and corslet hold,

One keen with temper"d steel - one stiff with gold

He shakes the pointed spear, and longs to try

The plated cuishes on his manly thigh;

But most admires the shield"s mysterious mould,

And Roman triumphs rising on the gold" -

For on that shield the heavenly smith had wrought the anticipated history of Roman glory, from the days of ?neas down to the reign of Augustus C?sar, cotemporaneous with the Poet himself.

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