. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. Not to the chase and notinto the fields did Jason go, nor did he ever go with the othersinto the Lemnian land; all day he sat in the palace with her,watching her, or listening to her singing, or to the long, fiercespeeches that she used to make to her nurse or to the fourmaidens who attended her. In the evening they would gather in the hall of the palace, theArgonauts and the Lemnian maidens who were their were dances, and always Jason and Hypsipyle danced to-gether. All the Lemnian maidens sang beautifully, but none
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. Not to the chase and notinto the fields did Jason go, nor did he ever go with the othersinto the Lemnian land; all day he sat in the palace with her,watching her, or listening to her singing, or to the long, fiercespeeches that she used to make to her nurse or to the fourmaidens who attended her. In the evening they would gather in the hall of the palace, theArgonauts and the Lemnian maidens who were their were dances, and always Jason and Hypsipyle danced to-gether. All the Lemnian maidens sang beautifully, but none ofthem had any stories to tell. And when the Argonauts would have stories told the Lemnianmaidens would forbid any tale that was about a god or a hero;only stories that were about the goddesses or about some maidenwould they let be told. Orpheus, who knew the histories of the gods, would have toldthem many stories, but the only story of his that they wouldcome from the dance to listen to was a story of the goddesses, ofDemeter and her daughter THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 61 DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE Once when Demeter was going through the world, giving mengrain to be sown in their fields, she heard a cry that came to herfrom across high mountains and that mounted up to her fromthe sea. Demeters heart shook when she heard that cry, forshe knew that it came to her from her daughter, from her onlychild, young Persephone. She stayed not to bless the fields in which the grain wasbeing sown, but she hurried, hurried away, to Sicily and to thefields of Enna, where she had left Persephone. All Enna shesearched, and all Sicily, but she found no trace of Persephone,nor of the maidens whom Persephone had been playing all whom she met she begged for tidings, but althoughsome had seen maidens gathering flowers and playing together,no one could tell Demeter why her child had cried out nor whereshe had since gone to. There were some who could have told her. One was Cyane,a water
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