For instant dying, she again descends,
While he to empty air his arms extends!"
Ovid.
The condition being thus broken, he saw her, but at the same moment she was turned into a shadow.
"And fainting cries, 'What fury thee possest?
What frenzy, Orpheus, seized upon thy breast?
Once more my eyes are seized with endless sleep,
And now farewell, I sink into the deep.'
Oblivious cells surrounded all with night.