DAPHNE
growing wider at each step, with the gray, unbroken lines of aqueduct leading toward Rome and the shining sea beyond.
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On a great flat stone far up on the heights sat two motionless figures: below them, partly veiling the lower world, floated a thin mist of cloud.
"This must be Olympus," said Daphne.
"Any mountain is Olympus that touches the sky," answered Apollo.
"Where are the others?" demanded the girl. "Am I not to know your divine friends?"
"Don't you see them?" he asked as in surprise,—"Aphrodite just yonder in violet robe, and Juno, and Hermes with winged feet"—
"I am afraid I am a wee bit blind, being but mortal," answered Daphne. "I can see nothing but you."
Beside them on the rock, spread out on oak leaves, lay clusters of purple grapes, six black
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