“Whoever findeth me the same shall slay!”[97]
Then fled as thunder, when the bolt is thrown
From the torn cloud, in rumbling dies away.
When on our ears a moment's truce there fell,
Another crash came of like rattling shock
As of a rapid thunder, peal on peal:
“I am Aglauros, who became a rock!”
On this, I drew back from my forward pace
To cling for shelter close behind the bard,
And when the air was hushed in all its space,