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All that to grapple of fight had rushed so furious-fain.

And even as when the woodmen with axes have smitten, and throw

The long beams down on the strand of the sea ranged row upon row,—

For the brine-sodden wood shall grip the strong bolts faster so,—

Even so at the entering-in of the foam-fringed haven they lay

One after other; some in a huddled heap where the spray

Dashed over their heads and their breasts, the while, stretched high on the land,

Stiffened their limbs: there were some yet again, whose heads on the sand

Rested, the while in the heaving waters swayed their feet;—{1010}

But doomed were they all alike for the birds’ and the fishes’ meat.

And the heroes, so soon as the peril afar from their emprise was driven,

Cast loose the hawsers of Argo before the breezes of heaven.

Forth shot she, and onward they drave, fast cleaving the broad sea-swell.

All day under canvas she ran: howbeit, as twilight fell

No longer the wind-rush steadily held, but the veering blast

Caught them, and swept them aback, till it brought them again at the last