This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... words she said, --" O godlike man, thou dost not ask my name, Or why folk gave me up to death and shame; Dost thou not dread I am some sorceress, Whose evil deeds well earned me that distress?" " Tell me thy name," he said; " yet as for thee I deem that thou wert bound beside the sea, Because the gods would have the dearest thing Which thy land held for its own ransoming." She said, " O love, the sea is rising fast, And time it is that we henceforth were past; The only path that leadeth to the down Is far, and thence a good way is the town; Wend we, and on our journey will I tell How all these things, now come to nought, befell." " Lead me," he said, and lifted from the sand The monster's head; and therewith, hand in hand, Together underneath the cliffs they went, The while she told her tale to this intent. " This is the Syrian land, this town anigh Is Joppa, and Andromeda am I, Daughter of him who holds the sceptre there, King Cepheus and Cassiope the fair. "She, smit by cruel madness, brought ill fate Upon the land to make it desolate; For by the place whence thou deliveredst me, An altar to the daughters of the sea Erewhile there stood, and we in solemn wise, Unto the maids were wont to sacrifice, And give them gifts of honey, oil, and wine, That we might have the love of folk divine; And so it chanced that on a certain day, When from that place the sea was ebbed away, Upon the firm sands I and many a maid About that altar went, while the flutes played Such notes as sea-folk love; and as we went Upon the wind rich incense--clouds we sent About the hallowed stone, whereon there lay Fruits of the earth for them to bear away; Thus did we maids, as we were wont to do, ...