Huge fish-bone wrecked and wreathed amid the sands

On that detested beach, was bright with blood

And morsels of his flesh: then fell the steeds

Head-foremost, crashing in their moonèd fronts,

Shivering with sweat, each white eye horror-fixed.

His people, who had witnessed all afar,

Bore back the ruins of Hippolutos.

But when his sire, too swoln with pride, rejoiced

(Indomitable as a man foredoomed)

That vast Poseidon had fulfilled his prayer,