NOVEMBER 285 



ful light of the Milky Way, that glow of radiancy caused by 

 the condensation of the light of millions of stars closely con- 

 tiguous to one another. Who has not gazed often at this 

 white celestial pathway, along which the chariot of Phaeton 

 flew ? And, looking upon the sighing leafless poplars stand- 

 ing amid their fallen, amber-like leaves, who has not thought 

 of Zeus, who metamorphosed the sisters of Phaeton into 

 poplars, and their tears into amber ? 



