Triton and Cymothoe
A DREADFUL face in the Carpathian sea
After a sweet one, like a deer in flight,
Came ploughing up a trough of thunderous might —
Triton's — in chace of coy Cymothoe,
Rugged and fierce, and all a froth, came he,
Dashing the billowy buffets left and right;
And on his slippery orbs, with eyes alight
For thirst, stooped headlong tow'rds the lovely she;
Crying, " What boots it to look out for aid
In weedy thicks, and run a race with him
To whom the mastery of the seas is given?
On this rude back, under the scaly shade
Of this huge tail, midst all this fishy trim,
Oft comes to sit the loveliest shape in heaven"
After a sweet one, like a deer in flight,
Came ploughing up a trough of thunderous might —
Triton's — in chace of coy Cymothoe,
Rugged and fierce, and all a froth, came he,
Dashing the billowy buffets left and right;
And on his slippery orbs, with eyes alight
For thirst, stooped headlong tow'rds the lovely she;
Crying, " What boots it to look out for aid
In weedy thicks, and run a race with him
To whom the mastery of the seas is given?
On this rude back, under the scaly shade
Of this huge tail, midst all this fishy trim,
Oft comes to sit the loveliest shape in heaven"
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