Conclusion

I have called the collection "Orpheus," naming it after the minstrel who, according to the poet of the Argonautica, sang "how the earth, the heaven, and the sea once mingled together in one form, after deadly strife were separated each from the other; and how the stars and the moon and the paths of the sun ever keep their fixed place in the sky; and how the mountains rose, and how the resounding rivers with their nymphs came into being, and all creeping things." ²⁶

PADRAIC COLUM.

Footnotes

xxviii:26 Apollonius Rhodius: The Argonautica, translated by R. C. Seaton, the Loeb Library.