Mountainous shadows of the dying day,

She saw a temple, whose tall columns fair

Recall’d her home; and ‘O if thou be there,

My love,’ she cried, ‘fly not again away.’

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Swiftly she ran, and entering by the door

She stood alone within an empty fane

Of great Demeter: and, behold, the floor

Was litter’d with thank-offerings of grain,

With wheat and barley-sheaves together heapt