. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. im in their arms and at their breasts, butthe child would not be comforted, becauses the nurses whohandled him now were less skillful than was the goddess-nurse. And as for Demeter, ane left the house of Celeus and wentupon her way, lonely in her heart, and unappeased. And inthe world that she wandered through, the plow went in vainthrough the ground; the furrow was sown without any avail, andthe race of men saw themselves near perishing for lack of bread. But again Demeter came near the Well of the Maiden. Shethought of the daughte
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. im in their arms and at their breasts, butthe child would not be comforted, becauses the nurses whohandled him now were less skillful than was the goddess-nurse. And as for Demeter, ane left the house of Celeus and wentupon her way, lonely in her heart, and unappeased. And inthe world that she wandered through, the plow went in vainthrough the ground; the furrow was sown without any avail, andthe race of men saw themselves near perishing for lack of bread. But again Demeter came near the Well of the Maiden. Shethought of the daughters of Celeus as they came toward the wellthat day, the bronze pitchers in their hands, and with kind looksfor the stranger — she thought of them as she sat by the wellagain. And then she thought of little Demophoon, the childshe had held at her breast. No stir of living was in the landnear their home, and only weeds grew in their fields. As shesat there and looked around her there came into Demetersheart a pity for the people in whose house she had THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 69 She rose up and she went to the house of Celeus. Shefound him beside his house measuring out a little grain. Thegoddess went to him and she told him that because of the loveshe bore his household she would bless his fields so that theseed he had sown in them would come to growth. Celeus re-joiced, and he called all the people together, and they raised atemple to Demeter. She went through the fields and blessedthem, and the seed that they had sown began to grow. Andthe goddess for a while dwelt amongst that people, in her templeat Eleusis. IV But still she kept away from the assemblies of the sent a messenger to her, Iris with the golden wings, bid-ding her to Olympus. Demeter would not join the , one after the other, the gods and goddesses of Olympuscame to her; none were able to make her cease from grievingfor Persephone, or to go again into the company of the immortalgods.
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