Demeter´s Daughter (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Demeter´s Daughter As he was wont in the Age of Gold, man still looks to goddess Demeter for much that may help his good. She, indeed, endures ; she passes not with other deities, because her feet are set on earth for ever and the welfare" of man lies in her keeping and the service of man is her care. Her name is ´gift,´ and who shall deny it to the mother of gifts? Mother to the wild earth always, she waited only human advent that she might extend her ægis over man also; that she might aid his toil and lessen it; that she might bless his fields and multiply their increase. The land and the dwellers upon it are alike sacred to her; the plough and the seed-lip are holy vessels within her temples; the harvest is her prime festival; and the least office of agriculture, a rite. The swinging scythe and falling swathe; the hum of the hone on steel; the rhythmic motion of the hand that sows the seed and the arm that gathers the grain - all these things are hers; and the dust of the threshing floor is her incense, the drip of the cider press her libation. She knows the cool stone flags and dim light of the dairy; she moves also in the yard and byre; she tends the flock upon the lull, and at dawn and sunset comes home from pasture with the sweet-breathing kine. The little honey-makers know her, and she gives her finger to the fallen worker, chilled or hurt upon its homeward way; she helps the sore-spent, thighladen thing lighting on the hive-board too weak to enter ; she presides at the swarming, guides the nuptial flight and crowns the queen. No nest is too little, no communion too great for her care. All that live must seek her blessing and win their meat from her hand. She steers the full-bosomed cloud and breaks it over the thirsty field ; she tempers the sun and the wind to the new-born thing and holds the fringes About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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