rms, to Psamathe cerulean pray'd,
To finish there her rage, and grant relief.
Unmov'd she heard AEaecides implore:
But Thetis, suppliant, from the goddess gain'd
The favor for her spouse. Uncheck'd, the wolf
The furious slaughter quits not, fierce the more
From the sweet taste of blood, till to a stone
Transform'd, as on a bull's torn neck he hung.
His form remains; and, save his color, all;
The color only shews him wolf no more:
And shews no terror he shall now inspire.

Still in this realm the angry fates deny'd
Peleus to stay; exil'd, he wander'd on,
And reach'd Magnesia: from Acastus there
Thessalian, expiation he receiv'd.

Ceyx meantime, with anxious doubts disturb'd;
First with the prodigy, his brother's change,
Then those which follow'd; to the Clarian god
Prepar'd to go, the oracles to seek,
Which sweetly solace men's uneasy minds.
Delphos was inaccessible; the road
Phorbas prophane, with all his Phlegians barr'd.
Yet first Alcyoene, most faithful spouse!
He tells thee of his purpose. Instant seiz'd
A death-like coldness on her inmost heart:
A boxen paleness o'er her features spread;
And down her cheeks the tears in torrents roll'd.
Thrice she attempted words, but thrice her tears
Her words prevented; then her pious plaints,
Broken by interrupted sobs, she spoke.
"My dearest lord! what hapless fault of mine
"Thy soul has alter'd? Where that love for me
"Thou wont'st to shew? Canst thou now unconcern'd
"Depart, and leave Alcyoene behind?
"Glads thee this tedious journey? Am I lov'd
"Most dearly farthest absent? Yet by land
"Was all thy journey, then I should but grieve,
"Not tremble: sighs would then of fears take place.
"The sea, the dread appearance of the main,
"Me terrifies. But lately I beheld
"Torn planks bestrew the shore: and oft I've read
"On empty tombs, the names of dead inscrib'd.
"Let not fallacious confidence thy mind
"Mislead, that AEoelus I call my sire;
"Who binds the furious winds in caves, and smoothes
"At will the ocean. No! when issu'd once,
"They sweep the main, no power of his can rule:
"And uncontroll'd they ravage all the land:
"Nor checks them aught on ocean. Clouds of heaven,
"They clash; and ruddy lightnings hurl along
"In fierce encounter. More their force I know,
"(For well I knew, and oft have mark'd their power,
"While yet an infant at my sire's abode,)
"