RIVER ERIDANUS.
"'At once from life and from the chariot driven,
Th' ambitious boy fell thunderstruck from heaven.
The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair,
Shot from the chariot like a falling star
That in a summer's evening from the top
Of heaven drops down, or seems at least to drop.'
"His sisters mourned his unhappy end, and were changed by Jupiter into poplars, which are still to be seen on the banks of the River Eridanus.