A longer date of woe, the widowed Wife

Her lamentable lot afflicted bore;

Yet both were rescued from the chains of life

Before Arion reached his native shore!

The Father, unrelenting phrenzy stung,

Untaught in Virtue’s school distress to bear;

Severe remorse his tortured bosom wrung,

He languished, groaned, and perished in despair.

Ye lost companions of distress, adieu!

Your toils, and pains, and dangers are no more;