Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 580
pass before I die, and thou knowest not theyearning which tills the heart of mortal things for tenderness andlove. Then a look of anger came over the fair face of Athene,and she said, Trouble me not. Thy prayer is vain, and thesons of men would shrink from thee, if thou couldst go among … GRECIAN ALTAR. {3000 years old.) them, for hardly could they look on the woeful sorrow of thycountenance. But Medusa answered, gently, Lady, hopehas a wondrous power to kill the deepest grief, and in the purelight of Helios my face may be as fair as thine. Then the anger of Athene became fiercer…
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