Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 443 ITALY. night falls, she lights two pine-stems at the fires of Etna, to flame as torches over thedark earth, as the Greek tragic poet sings :—? In sorrow for her daughter lost, she goesSeeking and wandering through many lands,While from the depths of yEtna, streams of fireImpregnate all the Isle of Sicily,And the earth groans aloud ! In the neighbourhood of the spot where the noble city of Syracuse afterwards stood,Pluto had sunk again into the earth ; and here, in honour of his lovely prize, he caused. STRAITS OF MESSINA. the blue fountain of Cyane to gu
Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna . 443 ITALY. night falls, she lights two pine-stems at the fires of Etna, to flame as torches over thedark earth, as the Greek tragic poet sings :—? In sorrow for her daughter lost, she goesSeeking and wandering through many lands,While from the depths of yEtna, streams of fireImpregnate all the Isle of Sicily,And the earth groans aloud ! In the neighbourhood of the spot where the noble city of Syracuse afterwards stood,Pluto had sunk again into the earth ; and here, in honour of his lovely prize, he caused. STRAITS OF MESSINA. the blue fountain of Cyane to gush forth. Only after the bereaved mother had traversedthe earth far and wide, in her car drawn by dragons, and after she had made the Atheniansparticipators in her noble gifts and mild laws, did she discover the abode of the long-lostone, and by her entreaties, obtained from Jupiter the boon that her daughter should beallowed to return to her every Spring, and abide with her till harvest-time. And so sherises every year, and strews violets and roses, and brilliant blossoms over the land, andblesses the fields with abundant harvests. And for many centuries the people were wontto celebrate the festival of the goddesses every harvest-tide, and decked their hair withwreaths of wheat-ears and corn-flowers, as Ceres had adorned her golden tresses in thejoy of being re-united with her child. Thus Sicily owed her wealth and civilization to the beneficence of the kind even to this day it is distinguished above all lands for the g
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