Her watery palaces, and coral caves,
Her home, and all immortal company,
To dwell with him, a simple shepherd boy."
Barry Cornwall.
Polyphemus, however, discovered their retreat, and with it, the cause of all the scorn and indifference, with which he had been treated.
————————"At once he saw
His rival, and the nymph he loved so well,
Twined in each other's arms. 'Away,' he cried,
'Away thou wanton nymph, and thou, my slave.
Earth born and base, thou—thou whom I could shake