Hypolympia Author:Edmund Gosse Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: modes of amusing him a little every day, and, for the rest, let him doze in the sunshine. His mind is worn so smooth that it fails any longer to catch in ideas a... more »s they flit against it. They pass off, glide away. It is useless, Rhea, to torment Kronos. Rhea. I shall watch him, all day long. For I, too, am weary. Do not propose to me, with your restless energy, any fresh interests. Let me sit, with my cold hands folded in my lap, and look at Kronos, nodding, nodding. It is very kind of Circe, but we are too old for love ; and of you, but we are too old for amusement. Let us rest, Hermes, rest and sleep ; perhaps dream a little, dream of the far-away past. [circe and Persephone enter from ' the left.] Persephone [to Hermes]. My mother requires so much activity of mind and body. You must not believe that I was neglecting her. But I went forth in despair this morning to see what I could invent, adapt, discover, as a means of rousing her. I am stupid, I could think of nothing. I wandered through the woods, down the glen, along the sea-shore, up the side of the tarn and of the marsh, but I could think of nothing. Circe. And when I found Persephone she was lying, flung out among the flowers, with bees and butterflies leaping round her in the sunshine, and the beech-leaves singing their faint song of peace. It was beautiful, it was like Enna—with, ah! such a difference. Persephone. Circe does not tell you that I was so ' foolish as to be in tears. But now it seems that you have invented an occupation for Ceres ( You are so divinely ingenious. Hermes. I hope it may be successful. Persephone. Tell me what it is. Hermes. I have found at the back of the palace a small rural waggon, and I have caught two ponies, with coats like grey velvet, and gr...« less