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| | BULFINCH'S MYTHOLOGY THE AGE OF FABLE : PHAETON |
 | | Then, it is believed, the people of Aethiopia became fl by the blood being forced so suddenly to the surface, and the Libyan desert was dried up to the condition in which it remains to this day. |
 | | The Nymphs of the fountains, with dishevelled hair, mourned their waters, nor were the rivers safe beneath their banks: Tanais smoked, and Caicus, Xanthus, and Meander; Babylonian Euphrates and Ganges, Tagus with golden sands, and Cayster where the swans resort. |
 | | His sisters, the Heliades, as they lamented his fate, were turned into poplar trees, on the banks of the river, and their tears, which continued to flow, became amber as they dropped into the stream. |
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