The heroes : or Greek fairy tales for my children (1879)
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875 · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 42
mer sea. And who were Halcyone and Ceyx? You shallhear while the chest floats on. Halcyone was a fairymaiden, the daughter of the beach and of the wind.And she loved a sailor-boy, and married him^and none on earth were so happy as they. But atlast Ceyx was wrecked; and before he could swimlo the… … P -1. PERSEUS. 5 birds ; and now they build a floating nest every year,and sail up and down happily for ever, upon thepleasant seas of Greece. So a niglit passed, and a day, and a long day itwas for Danae ; and another night and day beside,till Danae was faint with hunger and weeping, andyet no…
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