AURORA.
(Sent by Lilian Floyd, Te Kuiti.) Every morning Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, drew back with rosy fingers the veil of night and heralded the coming of the sun. Wrapping around her the rich folds of her saffron-hued mantle, she sped across the heavens in her glorious chariot, or was borne aloft by her own fleet wings, that glowed with ever-chang-r ing colours, as she moved. One morning, according to the Greek legend, as Aurora looked down upon the world of mortals awakening to welcome the coming dawn, she beheld the fair youth Tithonus, and his beauty won her heart. She bore him ■away to her bright dwelling-place at the edge of the world, and there they were wedded. Dreading the time when death must take him from her, Aurora begged the gods to allow him to live for ever. Her prayer was granted. But, alas! she ffirgot to ask that he might stay immortally young. So as the years passed Tithonus grew older and older. At last Aurora could no longer endure to look upon the husk of a man she had loved, and she liuuured him into a grasshopper-
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Waikato Times, Volume 109, Issue 18229, 17 January 1931, Page 15 (Supplement)
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