Chapter 34

“Seiz’d with a sudden fear, we run to sea, The cables cut, and silent haste away; The well-deserving stranger entertain; Then, buckling to the work, our oars divide the main. The giant harken’d to the dashing sound: But, when our vessels out of reach he found, He strided onward, and in vain essay’d Th’ Ionian deep, and durst no farther wade. With that he roar’d aloud: the dreadful cry Shakes earth, and air, and seas; the billows fly Before the bellowing no…