The Heroes by Charles Kingsley (dar e dil novel online reading txt) 📕

ns, anddown the pleasant vale of Argos, and away and out to sea. And awayand out to sea before it floated the mother and her babe, while allwho watched them wept, save that cruel father, King Acrisius.

So they floated on and on, and the chest danced up and down uponthe billows, and the baby slept upon its mother's breast: but thepoor mother could not sleep, but watched and wept, and she sang toher baby as they floated; and the song which she sang you shalllearn yourselves some day.

And now they are past the last blue headland, and in the open sea;and there is nothing round them but the waves, and the sky, and thewind. But the waves are gentle, and the sky is clear, and thebreeze is tender and low; for these are the days when Halcyone andCeyx build their nests, and no storms ever ruffle the pleasantsummer sea.

And who were Halcyone and Ceyx? You shall hear while the chestfloats on. Halcyone was a fairy maiden, the daughter of the beachand of the wind. And she loved a sailor-boy, an