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HAROLD’S DISCUSSIONS. 
to tear it off, he finally threw himself on a funeral 
pile on Mount (Eta. Hence Schiller says: 
“ Till the god, the earthly part forsaken, 
From the man, in flames asunder taken. 
Drank the heavenly ether’s breath. 
Joyous, in the new, unwonted lightness. 
Soared he upward to celestial brightness, 
Earth’s dark, heavy burden lost in death.” 
Between Hercules and Bootes is Corona, composed 
of six stars arranged in semicircular form, suggesting 
a crown. 
East of Hercules is Lyra, the harp, which consists 
of one brilliant white star, Yega, of the first magni¬ 
tude, and four smaller ones near it in the shape of a 
parallelogram. 
East of this, in the Milky Way, is an attractive con¬ 
stellation in the shape of a cross, called Cygnus, or the 
Swan. It contains the star nearest to the earth in the 
northern hemisphere, but it is so small that a sharp 
eye only is able to observe it. 
South of Cygnus, near the edge of the Milky Way, 
is an attractive group of stars in the shape of a dia¬ 
mond, commonly called “ Job’s Coffin.” This figure, 
together with minor stars, composes the Dolphin. 
Between Cygnus and Andromeda is the constella¬ 
tion Pegasus, the fiying horse. Three of its bright 
stars, with one in the head of Andromeda, form the 
“ Square of Pegasus,” which can easily be found ; this, 
with three stars in the head and neck of Pegasus, form 
an outline similar to that of the Dipper, but much 
larger. 
