The Iris
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In the earlier traditions "she is represented as a youthful virgin, with wings of gold, who hurries with the swiftness of the wind from one end of the world to the other, into the depths of the sea and the underworld." When Juno sent her to the palace of the King of Sleep to bid him send a vision to Halcyone to reveal the death of her hus- band. Iris is pictured putting on her robe of many colors and tingeing the sky with her bow as she faithfully set out with her sad message to the drowsy abod...e of Somnus.
When Neptune was aiding the Greeks and driving back the Trojans, Jupiter, who sat watching the battle from Olympus, sent her with a stern message to Neptune, ordering him instantly to quit the field.
When we read the records of the tender, encouraging, and daring messages de- livered by the goddess of the rainbow, we appreciate the feeling of the ancients in giving her name to the flower of gorgeous coloring which "has a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart." Doubtless the Latin tutor of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, who was debating the name for his daughter, recalled these characteristics when he came upon the lines, ''Ergo Iris croceis per coelum roscida pennis Mille trahens varios adverse Sole colores, and exclaimed, 'Iris shall be her name!' " '/The fleur-de-lys, which is the flower of chivalry, has a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart." — Ruskin.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In the earlier traditions "she is represented as a youthful virgin, with wings of gold, who hurries with the swiftness of the wind from one end of the world to the other, into the depths of the sea and the underworld." When Juno sent her to the palace of the King of Sleep to bid him send a vision to Halcyone to reveal the death of her hus- band. Iris is pictured putting on her robe of many colors and tingeing the sky with her bow as she faithfully set out with her sad message to the drowsy abod...e of Somnus.
When Neptune was aiding the Greeks and driving back the Trojans, Jupiter, who sat watching the battle from Olympus, sent her with a stern message to Neptune, ordering him instantly to quit the field.
When we read the records of the tender, encouraging, and daring messages de- livered by the goddess of the rainbow, we appreciate the feeling of the ancients in giving her name to the flower of gorgeous coloring which "has a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart." Doubtless the Latin tutor of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Professor at the Breakfast-Table, who was debating the name for his daughter, recalled these characteristics when he came upon the lines, ''Ergo Iris croceis per coelum roscida pennis Mille trahens varios adverse Sole colores, and exclaimed, 'Iris shall be her name!' " '/The fleur-de-lys, which is the flower of chivalry, has a sword for its leaf and a lily for its heart." — Ruskin.
What to read after The Iris?
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