Though besieged and threatened to be torn asunder
Troy remained impregnable to the assailant,
if the Trojans had believed foreseer Cassandra
it would probably have stood up to the present.

The frenzied maid kept shouting like witless:
"I clearly see Troy lay in ruins, fall and break!"
But clairvoyants (just like those who bear witness)
were always put to death by burning at the stake!

At night when death on Troy descended, coming out
straight from the horse’s womb, winged, like a sudden blaster,
somebody cried over the terror-stricken crowd:
"The witch! The witch is all to blame for the disaster!"

That night, amidst the massacre, unrest and devastation
when her predictions had come true now, like a dazzle,
the crowd might have seized the suitable occasion
to savagely inflict their usual reprisal...

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

The end was rather disappointing, though not tragic:
a certain Greek had found her abode’s location
and took her, not just as Cassandra with her magic
but as insatiable conqueror’s possession.

The frenzied maid kept shouting like witless:
"I clearly see Troy lay in ruins, fall and break!"
But clairvoyants (just like those who bear witness)
were always put to death by burning at the stake!