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.Oh, in those happier days now fondly yearned-for, you heroesBorn; (all hail!) of the gods begotten, and excellent issueBred by your mothers, all hail! and placid deal me your favour.Oft with the sound of me, in strains and spells I'll invoke you;You too by wedding-torch so happily, highly augmented,Peleus, Thessaly's ward, in whose favor Jupiter himself,The Father of the gods, resigned his passions.You Thetis, fairest of maids Nereian, vouchsafed to marry?You did Tethys empower to woo and wed with her grandchild;Nor less Oceanus, with water compassing th' Earth-globe?But when ended the term, and wisht-for light of the day-tideUprose, flocks to the house in concourse mighty, convened,