Scuttled and buried in a sea of glass

By her own master! It will cost me pain.

Better a night of lightning-riven rain

With hell-hounds baying in the driven gloom!

Anicetus

The will of Nero is her wind of doom—

Woe to the seaman who defies that gale!

Go now—make ready that we may not fail

To crown the wish of Caesar with the deed.

Captain