The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - The Original Classic Edition. Padraic Colum
such light from her body that the chamber shone. Metaneira remained trembling and speech-less, unmindful even to take up the child that had been laid upon the ground.
It was then that his sisters heard Demophoon wail; one ran from her chamber and took the child in her arms; another kindled
again the fire upon the hearth, and the others made ready to bathe and care for the infant. All night they cared for him, holding him
in their arms and at their breasts, but the child would not be comforted, because the nurses who handled him now were less skillful than was the goddess-nurse.
And as for Demeter, she left the house of Celeus and went upon her way, lonely in her heart, and unappeased. And in the world that she wandered through, the plow went in vain through the ground; the furrow was sown without any avail, and the race of men saw themselves near perishing for lack of bread.
But again Demeter came near the Well of the Maiden. She thought of the daughters of Celeus as they came toward the well that day, the bronze pitchers in their hands, and with kind looks for the stranger--she thought of them as she sat by the well again. And then she thought of little Demophoon, the child she had held at her breast. No stir of living was in the land near their home, and
only weeds grew in their fields. As she sat there and looked around her there came into Demeter's heart a pity for the people in
whose house she had dwelt.
[pg 69] She rose up and she went to the house of Celeus. She found him beside his house measuring out a little grain. The god-
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