C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
The Storm
By Alcæus (c. 620c. 580 B.C.)
Translation of Sir William Jones
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Whilst we, betwixt them o’er the deep,
In shatter’d tempest-beaten bark,
With laboring ropes are onward driven,
The billows dashing o’er our dark
Upheavèd deck—in tatters riven
Our sails—whose yawning rents between
The raging sea and sky are seen.
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Loose from their hold our anchors burst,
And then the third, the fatal wave
Comes rolling onward like the first,
And doubles all our toil to save.