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قراءة كتاب 'Round the Year in Myth and Song

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'Round the Year in Myth and Song

'Round the Year in Myth and Song

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Hẽr´c̵u lēs̝
Hẽr´mēs̝
Hes pē´ri a
Hes pĕr´i dēs̝
Hēs´pe rus
Hi a wä´tha
Hō´mer

Ī´ris
Ĭt´a ly
Ĭth´a c̵a
Ī´da

Jā´nus
Jōve
Jūli us Cæ´s̝ar
Jū´no
Jū´pi ter

Kä´be yun
Ka bi bon ŏk´ka

La tō´na
Lē´da
Lĭp´ar i Īs´lands̝
Louvre (lōōvr)

Mā´i a
Märs̝
Mē´los
Mel pŏm´e ne
Mĕm´non
Mẽr´cu ry
Mĭ nẽr´va
Mud je kēē´wis

Nā´iads̝ (yādz)
Nar cĭs´sus
Nĕp´tūne
Nē´re ids̝
Nĭ´o be
No kō´mis
Nō´tus

O ce ăn´ids̝ (she)
Oc tā´vi us Cæs̝ar
Ō´din
O ly̆m´pus
Ō´re ads̝
O rī´on
Ôr´phe us

Păl´las A thē´ne
Pan dō´ra
Păr´is
Par năs´sus
Pär´the non
Per i ăn´der
Per sĕph´o ne
Phā´ë thon
Phœ´bus (fē)
Pi ĕr´ i dēs̝
Pī´e rus
Plē´ia dēs̝ (yȧ)
Plū´to
Pō
Pol y hy̆m´ni a
Po mō´na
Pro mē´the us
Psȳ´c̵he (sȳ´)

Rōme

Sæ´ter
Sha won dä´see
Sĭb´y̆ls
Sĭc´i ly
Sĭ´rens̝
Sty̆x

Ta rĕn´tum
Tẽrp sĭc̵h´o re
Tha lĭ´a
Thēbes̝
Thē´tis
Thôr
Ti thō´nus
Tiw (tū)
Tri´tons̝
Troy

U ly̆s´sĕs̝
U rā´ni a

Val´en tīne
Vē´nus
Vẽr´gil
Vĕs´ta
Vŭl´c̵an

Wa bäs´so
Wä´bun
Wä´bun-An´nung
Wō´den

Zĕph´y̆ rus (zĕf´)

A young woman walking in the countryside and releasing two birds from a cage
E. Semenowsky (modern).
Spring.

’ROUND THE YEAR.

O beautiful world of green!
 When bluebirds carol clear,
 And rills outleap,
 And new buds peep,
 And the soft sky seems more near;
 With billowy green and leaves,—what then?
 How soon we greet the red again!

A young woman in a garden, collecting roses in her apron
E. Semenowsky (modern).
Summer.
O radiant world of red!
 When roses blush so fair,
 And winds blow sweet,
 And lambkins bleat,
 And the bees hum here and there;
 With thrill of bobolinks,—ah, then,
 Before we know, the gold again!

A young woman in woodlands, collecting apples
E. Semenowsky (modern).
Autumn.
O beautiful world of gold!
 When waving grain is ripe,
 And apples beam
 Through the hazy gleam,
 And quails on the fence rails pipe;
 With pattering nuts and winds,—why then,
 How swiftly falls the white again!

A young woman on a snowy riverbank warms her hands over a small fire
E. Semenowsky (modern).
Winter.
O wonderful world of white!
 When trees are hung with lace,
 And the rough winds chide,
 And snowflakes hide
 Each bleak unsheltered place;
 When birds and brooks are dumb,—what then?
 O, round we go to the green again!

—G. Cooper.

Bas-relief of a woman with two children
A. B. Thorwaldsen (1770-1844).
Spring.

THE SEASONS.

The earth receives light from the sun, and completes its course through the heavens once a year. Each year brings Spring with her garlands of flowers, Summer—golden Summer—with her sheaves of sunlit grain, Autumn with the purple grape, and Winter clad in frost and snow.

Bas-relief of a man offering an apple to one of two women who are harvesting wheat
A. B. Thorwaldsen.
Summer.

Every year there is the same order of the seasons. Therefore man knows when to plant the tiny seeds, when the harvests and fruits will ripen, and what provision to make for the cold but merry winter.

Bas-relief of a man returning, from hunting and foraging, to his wife and infant
A. B. Thorwaldsen.
Autumn.

Just as little children, tired with play, and men who work all day, must have the night for sleep and rest, so Mother Earth, who plays and works so gaily from March to October, must have the winter season for rest. Then she covers herself with a mantle of snow, and sings a sleepy lullaby song.

Each of the seasons has three months to attend her.

Bas-relief of an old man and a cat sitting as an elderly woman lights a lamp
A. B. Thorwaldsen.
Winter.

Spring, clad in dainty green, has March with cleansing winds, changeable April with sunshine and rain, and tender May with the fragrant flowers.

Summer, in her golden dress, has June, July, and August to

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