poplar-sisters

Updated: July 14, 2026

Cross once more to Asia, and Samos awaits you, with the fall of Polycrates, and his daughter's flight into Persia; and the ancient story of Tantalus's folly, and of the feast that he gave the Gods; of butchered Pelops, and his ivory shoulder. In Italy, we have the Eridanus, Phaethon, and his poplar-sisters, who wept tears of amber for his loss.

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