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Page 339--page reference 19 added to Phaeton entry; Pirithons amended to Pirithous; Rachael amended to Rachel; Roncevalles amended to Roncesvalles; Shee Finaha amended to Shee Finnaha; Sisyplus amended to Sisyphus; Taillekin amended to Tailleken. Page 340--Tiberias amended to Tiberius; Uffizzi Palace amended to Uffizi Palace; Uluadh amended to Uladh. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Book of Myths, by Jean Lang *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BOOK OF MYTHS *** ***** This file should be named 22693-8.txt or 22693-8.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/2/6/9/22693/ Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do practically
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A Book of Myths, by Jean Lang The P
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and lost its beauty, there yet rema
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in any language. The writer will fe
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PYGMALION 11 PHAETON 16 ENDYMION 26
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Thus did Psyche lose her fear, and
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that was to be his heritage. Promet
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(Afterthought). For Epimethus it wa
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endure the torment of having a foul
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most perfect semblance of men and o
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had made sacred to Galatea. On the
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But at last she said to him, "Naugh
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From the courtyard of the Palace th
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wrought. That blazing chariot of th
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suburban garden. That unlettered sp
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[Illustration: SHE CHECKED HER HOUN
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deep, hidden meaning in each part o
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permission he sought, but solemnly
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night, but as that of evening when
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When the quest of the Argonauts was
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But as the first fierce storm that
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Once upon a time, so goes the tale,
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which the fame of the fair Psyche h
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arren rocks, the utter forsakenness
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deny anything to Psyche, and on the
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As a martyr walks to death, so did
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sprang from the high cliff on which
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And again the reeds murmured, "Bewa
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"Oh, foolish one," it said, "why do
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its ugly tomb in the dark soil, and
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and found, amazed, a fearless, whit
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"Aimed on the left side his well-ha
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ATALANTA Atalanta, daughter of the
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thou dost race with me, the goal is
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To Pallas Athené, goddess of craft
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them with pictures such as no skill
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shall fall--for oft by weathers tha
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dallying with Idas in the shadowy w
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of her dreams, his voice was as the
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were life to one whose beauty had w
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overshadowed by the past, and even
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"And now from their fountains In En
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daily had to face, sailed the seas
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came empty-handed, and as he stood
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But Athené said Nay, at his mother
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"but no mortal can obtain it, for o
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living as that of a flower in sprin
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wife. No marriage feast so splendid
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"Surely this stranger comes from Ol
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sons, and each son is more than the
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But the gods laughed. Like a harsh
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Zephyrus, god of the South Wind, ha
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This is the story of Midas, one of
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But when Midas, with the healthy ap
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First of all Pan took his fragile r
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hiding-place. The trees and shrubs
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For the air was full of the clamoro
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around the cave lurked the long dar
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like a ship driven on by the long o
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In the fragrance of the blossom of
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Wind and the North Wind wrestle tog
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For, from the carcase of one of the
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so fair. She had only tasted the jo
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she held most dear. "Give me back m
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LATONA AND THE RUSTICS Through the
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defiled." As she spoke, a change, s
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smiling at the remembrance of her m
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Grief had slain the body of Echo. O
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Fourteen years only have passed sin
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at length they looked like the pini
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higher, higher still, and when he s
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and give stare for stare to golden-
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voice sang snatches of song of his
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shall not hide him, nor shall his d
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whose white arms against the greenw
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fashioned for himself an instrument
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spear-wound through it. With terrib
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as she spoke, her tears and his blo
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the river), 'The only way, since go
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at length she stood on the edge of
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and so, by the hands of his river,
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Milton. Pan was dead, and the gods
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unutterable woe upon any of the son
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Near St. Goar, there rises out of t
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[7] Archilochus of Paros. [8] Fiona
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to come was possessed by Beowulf. I
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And Odin, seeing himself outwitted
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oath from anything in all nature, a
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Thus Loki, taking upon himself the
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Matthew Arnold. Gladly Hermoder mad
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were fit to receive him, and peace
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took place those things that are to
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lack marshes, unknowing that in the
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swiftly know whence ye have hither
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Grendel's scaly hide. Up and down t
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win, while he may, warlike fame in
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homeland and had told his kinsman t
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forth scorchingly, and its great mo
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FOOTNOTES: [9] Shakespeare (Julius
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would be allowed to retain his king
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"No one sent me," he said. "My moth
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"I had taken thee for another man,
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Leaving them behind with twenty tho
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comrades whose eyes never more woul
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humbly confessing his sins and begg
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King of Heaven! * * * * * May thy f
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Charlemagne then returned to Aix, a
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their love. To them in course of ti
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what her servants had scorned to do
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he stood, and greeted him in the gl
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the shattered victims of the destro
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Then said her brothers: "In Him we
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And Kemoc answered: "It is truth."
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In many ancient manuscripts we get
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Page 261 and 262: Ibycus, 192, 194, 195, 196 Icarus,
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