And all his exiled wanderings shared;
But when she fell and left him quite alone,
Then nothing could for Helle's loss atone.1035
Not so they wept, that fabled pair,
Deucalion and Pyrrha fair,
When 'midst the boundless sea they stood
The sole survivors of the flood;
For though their lot was hard and desolate,
They shared their sorrow—'twas a common fate.1040
Too soon our grieving company