“Now, through the rocks, appall’d with deep dismay,

We bend our course, and stem the desperate way;

Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms,

And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms.

The rock re-bellows with a thundering sound;

Deep, wondrous deep, below appears the ground.

Struck with despair, with trembling hearts we view’d

The yawning dungeon, and the tumbling flood;

When lo! fierce Scylla stoop’d to seize her prey,

Stretch’d her dire jaws and swept six men away,