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but harmonious sounds. But Talaon would make 

 his daughter feel that we are not always to re- 

 cline on a soft and embalmed couch , that our ear 

 is not made for the charms of music alone ; he 

 would teach her that life is not a dream without 

 terror. When he saw a violent storm threaten na- 

 ture , he took Eurydice in his arms , and led her 

 to the arid summits of Gargaris ; or else he as - 

 cended with her a rock which jutted over the 

 roaring sea. There he shewed her the rebellious 

 waves tossed about like mountains. Eurydice bent 

 her head withfright, and hid her charming face 

 in the folds of her father's mantle. Talaon smiled 

 to see the artless terror of his darling girl. He 

 contemplated her wilh a sort .of transport thus 

 wrapped up in the folds of his mantle; and he 

 kissed the pure forehead of the innocent virgin. 

 « Eurydice , said he , thèse storms and thèse tem- 

 pests , which throw the éléments into confusion , 

 are an image and even a weakened image of those 

 which sometimes agitate the heart of man. » Such 

 w^ords astonished and terrified the incomparable 

 nymph ; on some future day she will undersland 

 them, but even then not fully. 



« What ! will the sage Titan , hâve nothing 

 more to teach his daughter?» Vénérable Evander , 

 I feel that you are unable to know what Talaon 

 is , w^hat Eurydice will be ; and even what Or- 

 pheus himself will be one day. You cannot know 

 what humanity will owe them. Would you then 

 Wis}i the Titan to narrate to a young nymph the 



