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The following beautiful lines we find in
the Boston Athenaum, as copied from an
Eurepear Magazine. The Classical Die
tionaiy informs us that Psrche was "a
nymph whom Cupid married aud carried
into place Of bliss, where he long en-
joyed her company. Venus put her to death
because she had robbed the world of her son;
but Jupiter at the request Of Cupid, granted
Immortality to Psyche. The word signifies
the soul, and this personihcaton of Psyche,
first mentioned by Apuleius, is posterior to
the Algustan age, though still it is connected
with ancient mythology. Psycheis general
" represented with the wings OF a butterfly,
to initiate the lightness Of the soul, of which
the butterfly is the symbol. and on that ac-
count, among the ancients, when man had
just expired, butterfly appeared futtering
above, as if rising from the mouth of the de-
ceased"