ANTISTROPHE II.

Woe’s me! by the wild waves driven,

By the mute sea-monsters riven,[n19]

The untainted ocean’s creatures

Battening on their traceless features!

Heirless homes are lorn and lonely,

Childless parents weep and wail,

Old men weep; with weeping only

They receive the woeful tale.

STROPHE III.