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Juno, to gratify her resentment against Semele, contrived a plan for her destruction. Assuming the form of Beroe, her aged nurse, she insinuated doubts whether it was indeed Jove himself who came as a lover. Heaving a sigh, she said, "I hope it will turn out so, but I can't help being afraid. People are not always what they pretend to be. If he is indeed Jove, make him give some proof of it.
The words escaped, and he could neither unsay his promise nor her request. In deep distress he left her and returned to the upper regions. There he clothed himself in his splendors, not putting on all his terrors, as when he overthrew the giants, but what is known among the gods as his lesser panoply. Arrayed in this he entered the chamber of Semele.
Never on earthly anvil Did such rare armor gleam, And never did such gallant steeds Drink of an earthly stream. "Back comes the chief in triumph Who in the hour of fight Hath seen the great Twin Brethren In harness on his right. Safe comes the ship to haven, Through billows and through gales. If once the great Twin Brethren Sit shining on the sails." Bacchus was the son of Jupiter and Semele.
He never translated that message, for his was an art of silence; but the painter of The Maiden with the Head of Orpheus, of Salome, of Jason and Medea, of Jupiter and Semele, will never fail to win the admiration and homage of those art lovers who yearn for dreams of vanished ages, who long to escape the commonplaces of the present. Gustave Moreau will be their poet-painter by predilection.
The example of maternal incontinence was copied by the king of Italy; and the three favorite concubines of Hugo were decorated with the classic names of Venus, Juno, and Semele.
Let it be well understood, however, not for the purpose of deluding a Semele or any other woman, at all times, and in all circumstances, we have been true to our wives, and in this particular the prince royal might well take his father as an example." "Sire, he could do that in all things," exclaimed Count von Goltz, blowing a cloud of smoke from his lips.
'Tis death Thou, Semele, hast gained! SEMELE. Ha! Loves Zeus thus? ZEUS. All heaven I would have given, had I only Loved thee but less! SEMELE. Oh, Jupiter! Now I mark thine exultation, Juno! Accursed jealousy! This rose must die! Too fair alas! too sweet for Acheron! SEMELE. Methinks thou'rt niggard of thy majesty! ZEUS. Accursed be my majesty, that now Has blinded thee!
I also admired Semele, dying of fear and admiration at the frowns of a wrathful Jove, but her least of all, because I am terrified in a thunderstorm.
ZEUS. What! art thou doubting still Whether my might is lent me by the gods And not god-born? The gods, my Semele, In charity oft lend their strength to man; Ne'er do the deities their terrors lend Death and destruction is the godhead's seal Bearer of death to thee were Zeus unveiled! Thunder, fire, smoke, and earthquake. SEMELE. Withdraw, withdraw thy hand! Oh, mercy, mercy, For the poor nation!
Messala broke in upon him with a biting laugh. "Oh, I understand you now. Ishmael, you say, is a usurper, yet to believe an Idumaean sooner than Ishmael is to sting like an adder. By the drunken son of Semele, what it is to be a Jew! All men and things, even heaven and earth, change; but a Jew never. To him there is no backward, no forward; he is what his ancestor was in the beginning.
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