The wind swept down the Euxine, and the wave
Broke foaming o’er the blue Symplegades;
’Tis a grand sight from off “the Giant’s Grave”
To watch the progress of those rolling seas
Between the Bosphorus, as they lash and lave
Europe and Asia, you being quite at ease:
There’s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in,
Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.