To atoms, as the tempest scatters abroad
The sea-sand tow'rd the skies, away, away!'"
Acis came forth from his retreat, and Polyphemus threw an enormous rock upon him, which crushed him beneath its weight.
————————"The shepherd boy,
He felt the Cyclop's wrath, for on his head
The mighty weight descended: not a limb,
Or bone, or fragment, or a glossy hair,
Remained of all his beauty."
Galatea was in despair, and as she could not restore him to life, she changed him into a river, on the banks of which, she could still sport at even time, and sing to her beautiful, but lost love.
——————————"She changed,