. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. upon the seashore. As shewent toward her marble house the strange beasts followedCirce, whimpering as they went. Jason and Medea wentaboard the Argo, and the heroes drew away from Circes island. VI. IN THE LAND OF THE PH^EACIANS EARIED were the heroes now. Theywould have fain gone upon the island ofCirce to rest there away from the oarsand the sound of the sea. But the wisestof them, looking upon the beasts thatwere men transformed, held the Argo faroff the shore. Then Jason and Medeacame aboard, and with heavy hearts and wearied ar
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. upon the seashore. As shewent toward her marble house the strange beasts followedCirce, whimpering as they went. Jason and Medea wentaboard the Argo, and the heroes drew away from Circes island. VI. IN THE LAND OF THE PH^EACIANS EARIED were the heroes now. Theywould have fain gone upon the island ofCirce to rest there away from the oarsand the sound of the sea. But the wisestof them, looking upon the beasts thatwere men transformed, held the Argo faroff the shore. Then Jason and Medeacame aboard, and with heavy hearts and wearied arms theyturned to the open sea again. No longer had they such high hearts as when they drove theArgo between the Clashers and into the Sea of Pontus. Nowtheir heads drooped as they went on, and they sang such songsas slaves sing in their hopeless labor. Orpheus grew fearfulfor them now. For Orpheus knew that they were drawing toward a was no other way for them, he knew, but past the IslandAnthemcessa in the Tyrrhenian Sea where the Sirens THE RETURN TO GREECE 143 Once they had been nymphs and had tended Persephone beforeshe was carried off by Aidoneus to be his queen in the Under-world. Kind they had been, but now they were changed, andthey cared only for the destruction of men. All set around with rocks was the island where they the Argo came near, the Sirens, ever on the watch to drawmariners to their destruction, saw them and came to the rocksand sang to them, holding each others hands. They sang all together their lulling song. That song madethe wearied voyagers long to let their oars go with the waves,and drift, drift to where the Sirens were. Bending down tothem the Sirens, with soft hands and white arms, would liftthem to soft resting places. Then each of the Sirens sang aclear, piercing song that called to each of the voyagers. Eachman thought that his own name was in that song. 0 howwell it is that you have come near, each one sang, how welli
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