Now Zeun the lord of cloud roused in the north Who or what functions as a symbol in this passage?
a stormm against the alhips, and driving veila
of squall nnoved down like night on land and sea,
The bows went plunging at the gut; saila eracked and
lashed out strips in the big wind,
We savw death in thdt fury, dropped the yards, unshipped
the oars, and pulled for the nearest lee
then tvo long days and nighta we lay offshore wvorn out
and sick at heart, tasting our gief,
until a third Dawn came vith ringlets alhining. Then we
put up our masts, hauled sail, and rested,
letting the ateeramen and the breeze take over.
Imight have made it safely home, that time,
but as Ioame round Malea the eurrent
took me out to sea, and from the north
a freah gale drove me on, pant Cythera.
Nine days I dritted on the teeming sea
before dangerous high winds,
O the s00
Dawn
Zeus
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