THE ORLANDO FURIOSO.
CANTO XII.
I.
Ceres, when from the Idæan dame in haste
Returning to the lonely valley, where
Enceladus the Ætnæan mountain placed
On his bolt-smitten flanks, is doomed to bear,
Her girl she found not, on that pathless waste,
By her late quitted, having rent her hair,
And marked cheeks, eyes,and breast, with livid signs,
At the end of her lament tore up two pines,
II.
And lit at Vulcan’s fire the double brand,
And gave them virtue never to be spent;
And, afterwards, with one in either hand,
Drawn by two dragons, in her chariot went,
Searching the forest, hill, and level land,
Field, valley, running stream, or water pent,
The land and sea; and having searched the shell
Of earth above, descended into hell.
