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When yellow fands are fifted from below,
The glitt'ring billows give a golden show:
And when the fouler bottom fpews the black,
The Stygian dye the tainted waters take :
Then frothy white appear the flatted feas,
And change their colour, changing their disease.
Like various fits the Trachin veffel frnds,
And now fublime, she rides upon the winds;
And from a lofty summit looks from high,
And from the clouds beholds the nether ský;
Now from the depth of hell they lift their fight,
And at a distance fee fuperior light:

The lashing billows make a loud report,
And beat her fides, as battʼring rams, a fort :
Or as a lion, bounding in his way

With force augmented bears against his prey ;
Sidelong to feize; or unappall'd with fear
Springs on the toils, and rushes on the fpear:
So feas impell'd by winds with added pow'r
Affault the fides, and o'er the hatches tow'r.

The planks (their pitchy cov'ring wash'd away) Now yield; and now a yawning breach display: The roaring waters with a hoftile tide

Rush through the ruins of her gaping fide.
Mean time in sheets of rain the sky defcends,
And ocean fwell'd with waters upwards tends,
One rifing, falling one, the heav'ns, and fea
Meet at their confines, in the middle way:
The fails are drunk with show'rs, and drop with rain,
Sweet waters mingle with the briny main.

lack,

No ftar appears to lend his friendly light:
Darkness and tempeft make a double night.
But flashing fires difclofe the deep by turns,

And while the light'nings blaze, the water burns.
Now all the waves, their scatter'd force unite,
And as a foldier, foremost in the fight
Makes way for others: and an host alone
till presses on, and urging gains the town;
while th' invading billows come a-breft,
The hero tenth advanc'd before the rest,
weeps all before him with impetuous sway.
And from the walls defcends upon the prey;
Part following enter, part remain without,

With envy here their fellows conqu'ring fhout: And mount on other's backs, in hope to share The city, thus become the feat of war. An univerfal cry refounds aloud, The failors run in heaps, a helpless crowd; Art fails, and courage falls, no fuccour near; As many waves, as many deaths appear, One weeps, and yet despairs of late relief; One cannot weep, his fears congeal his grief, But ftupid, with dry eyes expects his fate: One with loud fhricks laments his loft eftate, And calls thofe happy whom their funerals wait. This wretch with pray'rs, and vows the gods implores, And ev'n the skies he cannot fee, adores. That other on his friends his thoughts bestows, His careful father, and his faithful spouse.

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The covetous worldling in his anxious mind
Thinks only on the wealth he left behind.
All Ceyx his Alcyone employs,

For her he grieves, yet in her abfence joys:
His wife he withes, and wou'd ftill be hear,
Not her with him, but wifhes him with her:
Now with laft looks he feeks his native shore,
Which fate has deftin'd him to fee no more;
He fought, but in the dark tempestuous night
He knew not whether to direct his fight.
So whirl the feas, fuch darkness blinds the sky,
That the black night receives a deeper dye.

The giddy fhip ran round; the tempest tore
Her maft, and over-board the rudder bore.
One billow mounts; and with a fcornful brow
Proud of her conquest gain'd infults the waves below
Nor lighter falls, than if some giant tore

Pyndus and Athos, with the freight they bore:
And tofs'd on feas; prefs'd with the pondrous blow
Down Links the fhip within th' abyfs below:
Down with the veffel fink into the main,
The many, never more to rife again.

Some few on fcatter'd planks with fruitless care
Lay hold, and swim, but while they swim, despair.
Ev'n he who late a fceptre did command,

Now grafps a floating fragment in his hand,
And while he struggles on the stormy main,
Invokes his father, and his wife's, in vain;
But yet his confort is his greatest care;
Alcyone he names amidst his pray's,

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