Proserpine and Midas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781442944275
Google: 87bQoMQVOaUC
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2007-12-20T05:00:00+00:00

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ACT II

Scene.

The Plain of Enna as before.

Enter Ino & Eunoe.

Eun. How weary am I! and the hot sun flushes

My cheeks that else were white with fear and grief[.]

E’er since that fatal day, dear sister nymph,

On which we lost our lovely Proserpine,

I have but wept and watched the livelong night

And all the day have wandered through the woods[.]

Ino. How all is changed since that unhappy eve!

Ceres forever weeps, seeking her child,

And in her rage has struck the land with blight;

Trinacria mourns with her;—its fertile fields

Are dry and barren, and all little brooks

Struggling scarce creep within their altered banks;

The flowers that erst were wont with bended heads,

To gaze within the clear and glassy wave,

Have died, unwatered by the failing stream.—

And yet their hue but mocks the deeper grief

Which is the fountain of these bitter tears.

But who is this, that with such eager looks

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