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■)■> my dearly beloved spouse , lo ber who will hâve 

 j) only me on Ihe wide earlh. » Eurydice then shed 

 tears , but ihese tears were for her august parents 

 and not for herself , Ihe soft serenity of her looks 

 expressed her confidence. 



» Meanwhile the stormy seasoji passed a,w%y; the 

 monarch of the tempest , no more reigned in the 

 sky. Talaon prépares the tender Vola for the dep^r- 

 ture of her daughter. And when the day arrived , 

 the august old man ordered Eurydice , and Orpheus 

 to seat themselves at bis feet , then imposing on 

 Iheir heads , bis vénérable hands, he pronounced 

 the words of initiation , without however pronounc- 

 ing the epoptic formule , for the days cpnsecrat- 

 ed to chastity were lo bave no end for them. Tbey 

 wrill remain néophytes. Awful mysteries of life and 

 of death, you mightjnot be eomplctely revealed 

 to them ; the genius of ancestry had remained T?eil- 

 ed in the sky. 



» Go together into the same exile , said Ta- 

 laon, the world is open before you, your destiny 

 is in your bands. Remember that the immortal 

 Gods envelop tbe voyager with their regards , as 

 the sky overflows nature by its beneficent light. 

 Hère are some precious seeds , which will so greatly 

 improve the wretched race of mortals. Men hâve 

 lill now refused them , but without doubt , the 

 times were not yet come. Thus the earth w^ill be 

 their inheritance ; thus Ihey will learn labour and 

 foresight. Thèse seeds , emblems of so much good, 

 pledge of such infinité hopes , you will reserve , 



