PERSEPHONE.

  
 

EMETER had the care of all the plants,
/ fruits and grains in the world.
= She taught the people how to plow
“ the fields and plant the seeds.

She helped them gather in their harvests.

They loved the kind earth- mother and gladly
obeyed her.

They also loved her daughter, the beautiful
Persephone.

Persephone cpandlowet all day in the meadows
among the flowers.

Wherever she went the birds, singing merrily,
flocked after her.

The people said, ‘‘Where Persephone is, there is

the warm sunshine.
“Flowers bloom when she smiles.

“Listen to her voice; it is like a bird’s song.”

Demeter wished always to have her child near
her.

One day Persephone went alone into a meadow
near the sea. She had made a wreath for her hair,
and gathered all the flowers that her apron could
hold.

Far away across the meadow she sawa white