Excerpt from The Story of Eleusis: A Lyrical Drama Of holy Demeter, giver of grain, is the story; and of her daughter, the maiden Persephone whom Hades bore away to be his Queen among the dead. As she was gathering flowers in a meadow he seized her and Demeter knew it t. A long time she searched, withholding her gifts from mortals; but at length Helios, who seeth all things, told her how Hades, with the consent of Zeus, had borne away the maiden to rule beside him in his dark hall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.