Behold how, rent to sorrow’s note,

My linen robes all loosely float,

And my Sidonian veil!

STROPHE VII.

And yet, in that slight timbered house, well-armed

With frequent-plashing oar,

Stiff sail and cordage straining, all unharmed

By winter’s stormy roar,

We reached this Argive shore.

Safely so far. May Jove, the all-seeing, send