Therefore he failed, say they; but we, that have no wisdom, can only remember

How through the purple perfumed pinewoods white Eurydice roamed and sung:

How through the whispering gold of the wheat, where the poppy burned like a crimson ember,

Down to the valley in beauty she came, and under her feet the flowers upsprung.

-ALFRED NOYES.

THE ROYAL FAMILY

CEPHEUS-CASSIOPEIA
PERSEUS-ANDROMEDA

The four constellations of the Royal Family rise with Pegasus or directly after him. They can be found in the east in October, and the most important ones are overhead in December. In northern latitudes Cepheus and Cassiopeia never set. Andromeda is low down in the west in February, with Perseus following close behind.

Long, I trow,

Thou wilt not seek her in the nightly sky, So bright her head, so bright

Her shoulders, feet, and girdle.

Yet even there she has her arms extended, And shackled, even in heaven; uplifted, Outspread eternally, are those fair hands.

-ARATUS.