Hero and Leander - the Surface From Depth

Leander loved Hero, who lived on the opposite side of the strait, and would swim to her each night, but was drowned in a tempest. Hero in despair cast herself into the sea.* What body this asea all vision past This hallow'd temple bobbing half-between? What vengeful God has sheath'd fond Hero's light Commanding tempest fingers long and lean? To wake no more no more to pad the fields Of hyacinth on fair Abydos' shore; Is truth deep gone asparay in jet-black waves Which buoy the spirit on no more no more What figure this at peace which calmly drounds While all around the shrieking bedlam raves? What zealous spectral God does rage above Disturbing not the silence of the grave? *Bullfinch Mythology