The winds were instructed to gather together the rain clouds over the earth. […] All was now over. […] His clear notes floated over the sea, and allured a school of dolphins, which came and played about the ship. […] Like a stone Leander sank, once, twice, thrice, and the billows closed for ever over his head. […] All night long she waited and watched for the lover who did not come; and, when the first sunbeams shone over the tossing sea, she cast an anxious glance over the waters to Abydus.