Has she not then been seen?

_Eun._ Alas, all hope is vanished! Hymera says
She slept the livelong day while the hot beams
Of Phoebus drank her waves;--nor did she wake
Until her reed-crowned head was wet with dew;--
If she had passed her grot she slept the while.

_Ino._ Alas! Alas! I see the golden car,
And hear the flapping of the dragons wings,
Ceres descends to Earth. I dare not stay,
I dare not meet the sorrow of her look[,]
The angry glance of her severest eyes. [14]

_Eun._ Quick up the mountain! I will search the dell,
She must return, or I will never more.

(_Exit._)

_Ino._ And yet I will not fly, though I fear much
Her angry frown and just reproach, yet shame
Shall quell this childish fear, all hope of safety
For her lost child rests but in her high power,
And yet I tremble as I see her come.

_Enter Ceres._

_Cer._ Where is my daughter? have I aught to dread?
Where does she stray? Ino, you answer not;--
She was aye wont to meet me in yon field,--