Stories from Plato and other classic writers : Hesiod, Homer, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny (1895)
Burt, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1850-1918 · Boston : Ginn · leaf 238
t her, hefound his arms full of greatbranches of the syringa bush, withits white flowers glowing like abeautiful face. And, as he stoodthere mourning over his loss, heheard a murmuring noise, a sweet,sad, low tone like one complaining,coming from the branches of thesyringa; for the syringa, like… … Thy soul doth come to me throughthis hollow branch. This way ofconversing with thee shall everremain to me. Oh, the delightof speaking to thee through music 55 226 STORIES FROM PLATO Then he took seven branchesand bound them together, andmade them into a musicalinstrument of seven pipes. Andhe…
