Dark, save when swift and sharp, and griding through.
Griding.—Milton. "The griding sword with discontinuous wound," &c.
Lonely he strays till Æthra sees again
Her starry children smiling on the main.
Both the Pleiades and the Hyades are said to be the daughters of Æthra, one of the Oceanides, by Atlas.
Reign storm-girt Arcas, and the Mother Star.
Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, near the North Pole, supposed by the Poets to be Arcas and his mother.