Beneath the Chestnut shade."
"Prophecy of Capys."

N.B. It is to be observed that in proper names the final e and
es are to be sounded. Thus Cybele and Penates are words of three
syllables. But Proserpine and Thebes have been so long used as
English words, that they may be regarded as exceptions, to be
pronounced as if English. Hecate is sometimes pronounced by the
poets as a dissylable. In the Index at the close of the volume,
we shall mark the accented syllable, in all words which appear to
require it.


CHAPTER II
Prometheus and Pandora

The Roman poet Ovid gives us a connected narrative of creation.
Before the earth and sea and the all-covering heaven, one aspect,
which we call Chaos, covered all the face of Nature,-- a rough
heap of inert weight and discordant beginnings of things clashing
together. As yet no sun gave light to the world, nor did the
moon renew her slender horn month by month,-- neither did the
earth hang in the surrounding air, poised by its own weight,--
nor did the sea stretch its long arms around the earth. Wherever
there was earth, there was also sea and air. So the earth was
not solid nor was the water fluid, neither was the air
transparent.

God and Nature at last interposed and put an end to this discord,
separating earth from sea, and heaven from both. The fiery part,