“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,