The Fall of Tethys

"By my death i'll give you consolation for your death he said those words and leapt on a high rock which years of sounding waves had undermined and hurled himself into the sea below tethys was moved with pity for his fall received him softly and then covered him with feathers as he swam along the waves" "This new bird isacos plunged headlong into the deep and tried incessantly that method of destruction. His great love unsatisfied made his sad body lean until even the spaces fixed between the joints of his legs had grown long"