And whelm on them into the bottomless void
  This desolated world, and thee, and me,
  The conqueror and the conquered, and the wreck
  Of that for which they combated!
  Ai, Ai!
  The elements obey me not. I sink
  Dizzily down, ever, forever, down.
  And, like a cloud, mine enemy above
  Darkens my fall with victory! Ai, Ai!

SCENE II.--The Mouth of a great River in the Island Atlantis. OCEAN is discovered reclining near the shore; APOLLO stands beside him.

OCEAN
  He fell, thou sayest, beneath his conqueror's frown?

APOLLO
  Ay, when the strife was ended which made dim
  The orb I rule, and shook the solid stars,
  The terrors of his eye illumined heaven
  With sanguine light, through the thick ragged skirts