One time-outstaring deed remains to do,

Then let the pit howl—Caesar sings no more!

Go ask the battered wreckage on the shore

Who sought his mother in a sudden sleep,

To be with her forever on the deep

A twin ship-hating tempest!

(Enter Anicetus excitedly.)

Anicetus

Lost! We’re lost!

The Roman ship yaws rock-ward tempest-tossed