The concluding lines of the poem- Sed postquam tellus scelere est imbuta nefando, etc.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
"Today there are fifty-seven planets colonized by former inhabitants of tellus or their descendants from colonized planets.
"Man of Many Minds"
E. Everett Evans
tellus is the personification of the earth, being described as the first being that sprung from Chaos.
"Hamlet"
William Shakespeare