Waiting For The Dawn

Book III – The Wanderings of Aeneas

***Waiting for the Dawn***

1. We are lost in these walls of ice
We are lost in this hell
We are lost in these mortal waves
Searching for a light beyond to ride.

As bright as a blade – moon, watch over our lives
And show the new way to sail
Thy silver rays be our eyes.

From the ashes we'll arise…

[Chorus:]
Rise – don't bleed tonight
There'll be a new day
Don't fall – waiting for the dawn
Together we'll arise
Stay side by side
Don't fall – waiting for the dawn.

2. A new dawn will shine again for us
Dispelling the shades of this night
Erasing those flames from our minds.

From the ashes we'll arise…

[Chorus]

Now, hear the winds…
They will take us far from here
To new horizons and lands
The gods want a new fate for us.

[Chorus]

So Aeneas spoke after sailing from Troy
The journey in search of the promised land began
First, they sailed towards north to Thrace, then, towards Cete, the cradle of the Trojan race, where a pestilence
forced them to go away
In a dream Aeneas saw Heperia, the land ofthe west, as their goal; so they started a new journey towards west
They encountered and fought against the Harpies led by Celeano
They sailed on to Leucas in West Greece and stayed there a year
At Buthrotum in Chaonia, they were welcomed by the former Trojan Helenus, who had been enslaved by the Greeks but later freed, made a king
He prophesied the Italian future and the route to take, including going to the Sibyl at Cumae
Aeneas departed and sailed across the Ionian sea to the boot of Italy and on to Sicily
They encountered the Greek Achaimenides, who told them his story about the Cyclops
They all had to flee Polyphemus when he appeared, and ended up at Drepanum on the west coast of Sicily
Aeneas finished his account with the death of his aged father Anchises.