Crossword-Solution: NAIADES 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled! I have oft heard My mother Circe with the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baleful drugs, Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul, And lap it in Elysium: Scylla wept, And chid her barking waves into attention, And fell Charybdis murmured soft applause.

But soon the facts will be the Naiades[9] that shall solve this difficult enigma, without harm of flocks or of harvest.

Hearken to the singing of the brooks, and fear not the rain of the fountains; so will the Naiades learn to love thee.

The following allusion to the stories we have just been relating is from Milton's Comus, line 252: "I have often heard My mother Circe and the Sirens three, Amidst the flowery-kirtled Naiades, Culling their potent herbs and baneful drugs, Who as they sung would take the prisoned soul And lap it in Elysium.

Alas that the Naiades have lost their old authority! for what a deity of tiny loveliness must once have presided here! Ellen's companion paused not to gaze either upon the loveliness or the sublimity of this scene, but, assisting her where it was requisite, began the steep and difficult ascent of the lower part of the cliff.