pon a serpent which was coiled up in the grass.It bit the tender little foot, and presently Em\ydicebegan to feel sick. The bite of the serpent was poison-ous, and dropping down by the bank of the streamwhere she had first seen Orpheus, she died. Here thestar-children found her, and they hastened… … EURYDICE. 78 STORIES OF OLD GREECE. birds and squirrels told their sympathy; and thenightingale, his dearest friend among birds, perchedupon his shoulder, trilling a sweet little song ofregret and sadness. At last Orpheus thought hewould try to find Eurydice. Orpheus wandered far away from…
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