GREEK SOURCES OF SHEIXiEY^S ADONAIS 309 



Urania, the Mighty Mother, the chief mourner over the death of 

 Keats even as in Theocritus the Nymphs are the foster-mothers of 

 Daphnis, and in Bion Aphrodite is the one who chiefly mourns the 

 death of Adonis. 



Stanza III. 



Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep ! 



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For he is gone where all things fair descend, 

 cf. Bion, 3, 4. 



No longer sleep in thy robes of purple, Cypris. 

 Wake to thy grief * * * and beat thy breast. ('> 



cf. Bion, 54-55. 



Where Cypris (Aphrodite) says to Persephone, goddess of the 

 realm of the dt-ad : 



''Take thou my lord. For thou art stronger far than 

 I, and all things fair descend to thee."^^) 



Stanzas lY, VI. 



Most musical of mourners, weep again ! 



Lament anew, Urania ! He died. 



Who was the sire of an unmortal strain, 



Blind, old, and lonely when his country's pride 



The priest, the slave and the liberticide 



Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite 



Of lust and blood ; he went, unterrilied. 



Into the gulf of death ; but his clear sprite 



Yet reigns o'er earth ; the third among the sons of light. 



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 eypeo 8et\aia * * koX TrXardyrjaov 

 arrjdea. 



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Xdfi^ave. Tlepa-€(f)6va, rov ifiov Troaiv. icrcrX yap avrd 

 TToWov ifiev Kpecracov, to Be irav koKov e? ae Karappel. 



