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.