though washed away by one of his waves of The 

 rain or obliterated by one of his dense mists, Rainy 

 till the other day. Then, as it happened, I 

 came upon the name once more, in a Latin 

 quotation in an old book. So, he was of the 

 proud Roman clan after all ! and, by the 

 context, clearly a divinity of the autumnal 

 rains, and of those also that at the vernal 

 equinox are as a sound of innumerable little 

 clapping hands. 



Could he be an astronomical figure, a 

 Zodiacal prince of dominion, I wondered. In 

 vain I searched through all available pages 

 connected with the Hyades, the Stars of 

 Water : in vain, the chronicles of Aquarius, 

 of Cetus and the Dolphin, of Hydra and 

 Pisces and Argo, that proud Ship of March. 

 But last night, sitting by the fire and hearing 

 the first sleet of winter whistle through the 

 dishevelled oaks and soughing firs, when I was 

 idly reading and recalling broken clues in 

 connection with the astrological ' House of 

 Seturn,' suddenly, in pursuit of a cross- 

 reference to some detail in connection with the 

 constellation of Capricorn, I encountered 

 Imbrifer once more. ' Imbrifer, the Rain- 

 Bringing One.' 



So, then, he is more than an obscure 

 divinity of the woods and of remote ancestral 



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