Charybdis from Love & Trial by Stuart Anthony with Larry Beckett

With a favoring wind, we loosed the ship
from the island, and through the mouth of
Tartessos, the pillars of Herakles, at night,
around the headland sacred to Bacchos,
we sailed, hungry. When morning gave
light from the east, we arrived at the sea
of Sardinia, the gulf of the Italians, and
the Ausonian islands, then Lilybaion, in
the channel around it, along three-sided
Sicily, slowed by flames of Etna. Waves
of danger, roiling out of the abyss, over
the prow, hissing, Charybdis, churning,
evil, whirlpool held the ship, not forward
or back, but forced to circle the vortex.
The Argo was all but lost in the surge,
when Thetis, daughter of Nereus, old
man of the sea, to see her husband
Peleus again, rose up out of the deep,
saving the ship from wreck, and rage.

Lyric by Larry Beckett

• Acoustic
• acoustic guitar
• free
• heart music
• indie folk
• singer-songwriter
• Lancaster