And every ship was wildly rowed in fight,

All that composed the Persian armament.

And they, as men spear tunnies,[[39]] or a haul

Of other fishes, with the shafts of oars,

Or spars of wrecks went smiting, cleaving down;

And bitter groans and wailings overspread

The wide sea-waves, till eye of swarthy night

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Bade it all cease: and for the mass of ills,

Not, though my tale should run for ten full days,