Vintage Postcard Tennyson Ganymede Library Of Congress Washington DC painting

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TENNISON GANYMEDE GANYMEDE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D. C.


PUBLISHED BY B. S. REYNOLDS CO.. 1333 PENNA. AVE WASHINGTON, D. C MADE IN U.S. A POST CARD ADDRESS ONLY ON THIS SIDE Place the Stamp here ONE CENT For United States and Island Possessions Cuba, Canada and Mexico TWO CENTS For Foreign. GANYMEDE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. WASHINGTON, D. C. TENNYSON-GANYMEDE. When Jupiter came down to earth. to seek a successor to Hebe as Cupbearer to the Gods, he took the form of an eagle, and flying over Mount Ida, saw the Trojan Prince Ganymede, whom he carried off to Olympus. Tennyson in his''Palace of Art"describes. as among the pictures decorating its walls, one of Gany- mede borne aloft by the eagle— Or else flushed Ganymede, his rosy thigh Half buried in the Eagle's down, Sole as a flying star shot thro'the sky Above the pillar'd town.




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