ASTROXOMV WITH AX OPERA-GLASS. 65 



" Nor sh;ill blank .silence vvlielm the harassed lioiise 

 Of Cepheus; the liigh heavens know their name, 

 For Zeus is in their line at few removes. 

 Cepheus himself by She-bear Cynosure, 

 lasid king stands with uplifted arms. 

 Frou) his belt thou easiest not a glance 

 To see the first spire of the mighty Dragon. 



'■'• Eastward from him, heaven-troubled queen, with scanty stars 

 But lustrous in the full-mooned night, sits Cassiopeia. 

 Not numerous nor double-rowed 

 The gems that deck her form, 

 But like a key which through an inward-fastened 

 Folding-door men thrust to knock aside the bolts, 

 They shine in single, zigzag row. 

 She, too, o'er narrow shoulders stretching 

 Uplifted hands, seems wailing for her child. 



'"For there, a woful statue form, is seen 

 Andromeda, parted from her mother's side. Long I trow 

 Thou wilt not seek her in the nightly sky, 

 So bright her head, so bright 

 Her shoulders, feet, and girdle. 

 Yet even there she has her arms extended. 

 And shackled even in heaven ; uplifted. 

 Outspread eternally are those fair hands. 



" Her feet point to her bridegroom '■ 



Perseus, on whose shoulder they rest. 

 He in the north--wind stands gigantic. 

 His right hand stretched toward the throne 



Where sits the mother of his bride. As one bent on some high deed, 

 Dust-stained he strides over the floor of heaven." 



The makers of old star-maps seem to have vied in the effort to 

 represent with effect the figures of Andromeda, Perseus, and Cassio- 

 peia among the stars, and it must be admitted that some of them suc- 

 ceeded in giving no small degree of life and spirit to their sketches. 



The starry riches of these constellations are well matched with 

 their high mythological repute. Lying in and near the Milky-Way, 

 they are particularly interesting to the observer with an opera-glass. 

 Besides, they include several of the most celebrated wonders of the 

 firmament. 



In consulting our fourth map, the observer is supposed to face the 

 east and northeast. We will begin our survey with Andromeda. The 

 three chief stars of this constellation are of the second magnitude, 

 and lie in a long, bending row, beginning with Alpha (a), or Alphe- 

 ratz, in the head, which, as we have seen, marks one corner of the 

 great Square of Pegasus. Beta (/?), or Mirach, with the smaller stars 

 Mu (/u.) and Nu (v), form the girdle. The third of the chief stars is 

 Gamma (y), or Almaach, situated in the left foot. The little group 



