TALES OF THE ROMANS
and all was tempest. Then the sky cleared to
brightness. But Romulus could nowhere be seen.
People said the gods had taken him away. Of
course, this is only a legend.
Not long after that, when the people were gathered together at the place where the senate sat, a senator walked in, and cried:
“O people, I have seen Romulus!”
“Tell us where and how?”
He then told the following story.
He had met Romulus, dressed in bright armor, on the road near the city.
“Why, O King, did you leave the people who loved you?”
“My good friend, I dwelt on earth and built a city, and did my work, and now the gods have called me to heaven. Farewell. Go and tell the Romans that by the exercise of temperance and courage they shall become the greatest people in the world.”
WHAT THE FOREST LADY SAID
UP the path among the trees climbed the King. On each side of him, and overhead, the trees spread a thick shade. There was scarce a sound in the mountain forest except the sigh of the wind and the murmur of the brook.
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