Porter, Jermain G · Boston : Ginn & Company · leaf 64
Mrs. Sigourney in The Stars thus finely portrays it: Go forth at night And talk with Aldebaran, where he flames In the cold forehead of the wintry sky. The Pleiades. — The Pleiades lie upon the neck of theBull, where they seem to cluster, as Bayard Taylor hasit, like golden bees upon its mane, or,… … TAURUS, THE BULL 33 With the Greeks these were the sailmg stars, mdi-cating by their heliacal rising the opening of navigationin May; and this has been the common derivation ofthe title Pleiades, from the Greek ^Ho sail, but itseems more probable that it comes from another wordsignifying many. Some…
Constellations · Mythology
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