Sweeping the deep blue seas with sweeps a-carven of fir-wood.She, that governing Goddess of citadels crowning the cities,Builded herself their car fast-flitting with lightest of breezes,Weaving plants of the pine conjoined in curve of the kelson;Foremost of all to imbue rude Amphitrite with ship-lore.Soon as her beak had burst through wind-rackt spaces of ocean,While the oar-tortured wave with spumy whiteness was blanching,Surged from the deep abyss and hoar-capped billows the facesSeaborn, Nereids eyeing the prodigy wonder-smitten.There too mortal orbs through softened spendours regardedOcean-nymphs who exposed bodies denuded of raimentBare to the breast upthrust from hoar froth capping the sea-depths.Then Thetis Peleus fired (men say) a-sudden with love,Then Thetis nowise spurned to mate and marry with mortal,Then Thetis' Sire himself her yoke with Peleus sanctioned.