Each on the other. Some thus crashed and bruised,

By the storm stricken and the surging foam

Of wind-tost waves, soon vanished out of sight,

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Whirled by an evil pilot. And when rose

The sun's bright orb, behold, the Ægæan sea

Blossomed with wrecks of ships and dead Achæans.

And as for us and our uninjured ship,

Surely 'twas some one stole or begged us off,

Some God, not man, presiding at the helm;