“You’d think that the whole of the sky was falling into the sea,
or else that the sea had swollen and risen as far as the sky.”
“She wasted away in her tears to nothing, and dissolved into the water.
Her limbs grew sodden, bones bending, her dark green hair melted away,
and all was taken over by water.”
“Dewy night ends, the dawn is glowing”
“His bones became rocks, his hair and beard were transformed into trees.”
“A catapult forced a breach in the crumbling walls of a fortress.”
“A massive boulder had shaken the walls of a lofty fortress, towers and all.”