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Unresting, and now from his toil would he cease for a moment’s space,

And shouted:—the mighty voice rang far through the lonely place.

Eftsoons the morning-star rose over the mountain’s crest,

And the winds swept down from the gorges; and Tiphys cried on the rest

To get them aboard in haste, and to hearken the wind’s behest.

So with eager speed they embarked, and the anchor-stones of the ship

Heaved they aboard, and the hawsers thereof in haste did they slip.

And the midst of the sail bellied out with the blast, and far away

From the sea-strand with joy by Poseidon’s foreland wafted were they.

But it fell, in the hour when the dawn glad-eyed from the heaven doth beam,{1280}

From the east uprising, and all the earth-ways clearer gleam,

And the dewy wolds are a-sparkle beneath her flashing sheen,

Then were they ware of those that forsaken unwares had been.

Then mighty contention arose, and an indignation-burst

Most vehement-fierce, that any should go, and forsake the first

Of their comrades in prowess. But Aison’s son distraught with amaze