. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. overeach of them. The maidens took their hands; the heroesunloosed those soft hands and turned away from them. Hypsipyle left the throne of King Thoas and stood beforeJason. There was a storm in all her body; her mouth wasshaken, and a whole lifes trouble was in her great eyes. Beforeshe spoke Jason cried out: What Heracles said is true, OArgonauts! On the Quest of the Golden Fleece our lives andour honors depend. To Colchis — to Colchis must we go! He stood upright in the hall, and his comrades gatheredaround him. The Lemnian maide
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. overeach of them. The maidens took their hands; the heroesunloosed those soft hands and turned away from them. Hypsipyle left the throne of King Thoas and stood beforeJason. There was a storm in all her body; her mouth wasshaken, and a whole lifes trouble was in her great eyes. Beforeshe spoke Jason cried out: What Heracles said is true, OArgonauts! On the Quest of the Golden Fleece our lives andour honors depend. To Colchis — to Colchis must we go! He stood upright in the hall, and his comrades gatheredaround him. The Lemnian maidens would have held out theirarms and would have made their partings long delayed, butthat a strange cry came to them through the night. Well didthe Argonauts know that cry — it was the cry of the ship, ofArgo herself. They knew that they must go to her now orstay from the voyage for ever. And the maidens knew thatthere was something in the cry of the ship that might not begainsaid, and they put their hands before their faces, and theysaid no other THE VOYAGE TO COLCHIS 93 Then said Hypsipyle, the queen, I, too, am a ruler, Jason,and I know that there are great commands that we have toobey. Go, then, to the Argo. Ah; neither I nor the women ofLemnos will stay your going now But to-morrow speak tous from the deck of the ship and bid us farewell. Do not gofrom us in the night, Jason. Jason and the Argonauts went from Hypsipyles hall. Themaidens who were left behind wept together. All but Hyp-sipyle. She sat on the throne of King Thoas and she hadPolyxo, her nurse, tell her of the ways of Jasons voyage ashe had told of them, and of all that he would have to passthrough. When the other Lemnian women slept she put herhead upon her nurses knees and wept; bitterly Hypsipyle wept,but softly, for she would not have the others hear her weeping. By the coming of the mornings light the Argonauts hadmade all ready for their sailing. They were standing on thedeck when the light cam
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