        item: #1 of 4
          id: 16338
      author: Lang, Andrew
       title: The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
        date: None
       words: 40784
      flesch: 73
     summary: As to what was said, shown, and done in the Eleusinia, we only gather that there was a kind of Mystery Play on the sacred legend; that there were fastings, vigils, sacrifices, secret objects displayed, sacred words uttered; and that thence such men as Pindar and Sophocles received the impression that for them, in this and the future life, all was well, was well for those of pure hearts and hands. Such men rule righteously in cities of fair women, great wealth and riches are theirs, their children grow glorious in fresh delights: their maidens joyfully dance and sport through the soft meadow flowers in floral revelry.
    keywords: anon; aphrodite; apollo; child; dark; daughter; dear; demeter; earth; fair; father; goddess; gods; golden; goodly; greece; greek; hail; hands; heart; hermes; hymn; immortals; kine; lady; land; leto; life; man; men; mortal; mother; mysteries; myth; prince; religion; savage; sea; son; spake; thee; things; thou; word; zeus
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: 28270
      author: Gosse, Edmund
       title: Hypolympia; Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy
        date: None
       words: 20731
      flesch: 85
     summary: [_speaks louder, while the conversation becomes general, except that_ ZEUS _takes no part in it_]. [IRIS _flies down to the sea, and_ ZEUS _descends the steps.
    keywords: aphrodite; ares; away; circe; come; eros; hera; heracles; hermes; kronos; maia; nike; olympus; pallas; pan; persephone; phoebus; rhea; sea; selene; white; woods; zeus; æsculapius
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: 3013
      author: Aristophanes
       title: The Birds
        date: None
       words: 21622
      flesch: 85
     summary: PISTHETAERUS Take it then, and be off. PISTHETAERUS Take your flight, clear off, you miserable cur, or you will soon see what comes of quibbling and lying.
    keywords: athenian; birds; chorus; city; earth; epops; euelpides; f(1; f(2; father; gods; greek; heracles; informer; iris; man; men; pisthetaerus; poet; posidon; prometheus; tio; tis; want; wings; word; zeus
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: 38011
      author: Morris, Lewis
       title: The Epic of Hades, in Three Books
        date: None
       words: 37554
      flesch: 80
     summary: For as the flower Of the tiger-lily bright with varied hues Is for a day, then fades and leaves behind Fairness nor fruit, while the green tiny tuft Swells to the purple of the clustering grape Or golden waves of wheat; so lives of men Which show most splendid; fade and are deceased And leave no trace; while those, unmarked, unseen, Which no man recks of, rear the stately tree Of Knowledge, not for itself sought out, but found In the dusty ways of life--a fairer growth Than springs in cloistered shades; and from the sum Of Duty, blooms sweeter and more divine The fair ideal of the Race, than comes From glittering gains of Learning. Life, full life, Full-flowered, full-fruited, reared from homely earth, Rooted in duty, and thro' long calm years Bearing its load of healthful energies; Stretching its arms on all sides; fed with dews Of cheerful sacrifice, and clouds of care, And rain of useful tears; warmed by the sun Of calm affection, till it breathes itself In perfume to the heavens--this is the prize I hold most dear, more precious than the fruit Of Knowledge or of Love. But even thus, Tho' powerless to enjoy, the insatiate greed And thirst of power sustained me, and supplied Life's spark with some scant fuel, till it seemed, Year after year, as if I could not die, Holding so fast to life.
    keywords: blood; cold; day; days; death; deep; earth; eyes; face; fair; gods; heart; heaven; life; like; lives; love; man; men; pain; sea; soul; sweet; thee; thou; thought; time; voice; white; world; youth
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