The
Legend of Perseus
A STUDY OF TRADITION IN STORY
CUSTOM AND BELIEF: BY
Edwin Sidney Hartland
F.S.A.
VOL. III.
ANDROMEDA. MEDUSA
Published by David Nutt
in the Strand, London
1896
[IMPRINT]
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty
[DEDICATION]
TO
DAVID BRYNMÔR JONES, Q.C., M.P.
If any worth be found within these pages,
If any skill, however poor, have traced
Man’s thoughts and purposes down the long ages
Where thought is dim and purpose half-effaced—
To you the opportunity be reckon’d,
To you the worth. You flung the portals wide
Which guard enchanted palaces, and beckon’d
To new adventures life had else denied—
Enchanted palaces, where gods forgotten
Dream through an afternoon of endless years;
Adventures follow’d, far from fields erst foughten,
’Neath wilder heav’ns, aflame with mightier spheres.
Yours be the spoils, then, from that realm of glamour;
At least some gracious memories they will bring,
When husht the forum, husht is party clamour,
And you can listen to their whispering.