Cayani's Search for a Lingering Place

Cayani, who strove to tell where Proserpine had gone, but since her change had neither mouth nor tongue, and so was mute. When the goddess recognized at last convinced her daughter had been forced from her, she tore her streaming locks, and frenzied struck her bosom when with her palms. While the ancient dame wondered and wept and strove for one caress the reptile fled, and sought a lurking place. His very name describes him to the eye, a body starred with many colored spots. What lands, what oceans, carries, wandered then, would weary to relate. The bounded world was narrow for the search.