![]() ![]() That she whom he was bound to love so well Which bade him wot that either soon or late Īnd by the fruit of his own daughter's wombīe slain at last, and set within his tomb Unto his ears came wandering words of lore, Who, thinking he could free his life from fear,ĭid that which brought but death on him at last.Īnd had one daughter, fair as man could see,īut as her fairness day by day grew more, In the end he founded the city of Mycenae, and died there. Coming back to Seriphos he took his mother thence, and made for Argos, but by stress of weather came to Thessaly, and there, at Larissa, accomplished the prophecy, by unwittingly slaying Acrisius. Thence her son, grown to manhood, set out to win the Gorgon's Head, and accomplished that end by the help of Minerva and afterwards rescued Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus, from a terrible doom, and wedded her. ![]() Son of his daughter Danaë should slay him, shut her up in aīrazen tower built for that end beside the sea: there, though no man could come nigh her, she nevertheless bore a son to Jove, and she and her new-born son, set adrift on the sea, came to the island of Seriphos. ĪCRISIUS, king of Argos, being warned by an oracle that the īlue and gold binding of the volume of The Earthly Paradise containing this poem. ![]()
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