Didst thou behold the dusky realms
Of Proserpine of Sicily?
There Notus and Favonius lash550
No seas to rage with swelling floods;
There do no frightened vessels find
Help from the twin Tyndaridae.
Those waters lie in stagnant pools
And black; and when, with greedy teeth,555
Pale Death bears off uncounted tribes
Unto the shades, one oarsman grim