Downward at times I drive the waves,

Stir up the streams; to the strand I press

The flint-gray flood: the foamy wave

20 Lashes the wall. A lurid mountain

Rises on the deep; dark in its trail

Stirred up with the sea a second one comes,

And close to the coast it clashes and strikes

On the lofty hills. Loud soundeth the boat,

25 The shouting of shipmen. Unshaken abide

The stone cliffs steep through the strife of the waters,