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6 See land appearing 'mid the waves,

While surf with sand in turmoil raves.

Three ships the South has caught and thrown

On scarce hid rocks, as Altars known,

Ridging the main, a reef of stone.

Three more fierce Eurus from the deep,

A sight to make the gazer weep,

Drives on the shoals, and banks them round

With sand, as with a rampire-mound.

One, which erewhile from Lycia's shore

Orontes and his people bore,

E'en in Æneas' anguished sight

A sea down crashing from the height

Strikes full astern: the pilot, torn

From off the helm, is headlong borne:

Three turns the foundered vessel gave,

Then sank beneath the engulfing wave.

There in the vast abyss are seen

The swimmers, few and far between,

And warriors' arms and shattered wood,

And Trojan treasures strew the flood.

And now Ilioneus, and now

Aletes old and grey,

Abas and brave Achates bow

Beneath the tempest's sway;

Fast drinking in through timbers loose

At every pore the fatal ooze,

Their sturdy barks give way.

Meantime the turmoil of the main,

The tempest loosened from its chain,

The waters of the nether deep

Upstarting from their tranquil sleep,

On Neptune broke: disturbed he hears,

And quickened by a monarch's fears,

His calm broad brow o'er ocean rears.