The stars and their stories; a book for young people (1913)
Griffith, Mary Matlock, comp · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 108
Lepiis —The Hare Canis Major — … Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro the mellow shade,Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid. —Tennyson: Locksley HalL ORION In the olden times an aged and…
Stars · Constellations · Mythology, Classical
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