The Death of Eurydice

Orpheus and his wife Eurydice were taken to the underworld. Pluto told him he might now ascend from these avarnean veils up to the light, but if he turned his eyes to look at her, the gift of her delivery would be lost. They picked their way in silence up a steep and gloomy path of darkness. There remained but little more to climb till they would touch the earth's surface. When in fear he might again lose her she slipped away; he could hold nothing save the yielding air. The sight filled him with terror until petrified to stone or like Olenos changed to stone because he fastened on himself the guilt of his wife. She