Than the bright water, that obeys the wind.

Hiring a fishing-boat we bade the sailors

Row us to Aulis; when midway the straits,

The morning mist lifted, and lo, a sight

Unpicturable.—High upon our left

Where we supposed was nothing, suddenly

A tall and shadowy figure loomed: then two,

And three, and four, and more towering above us:

But whether poised upon the leaden sea

They stood, or floated in the misty air,