Mar. 17, 2009
Literature: The Story of Hero and Leander
Posted in Narrations
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Leander was a young man who was in love with a young lady, but she was in Europe, and he, in Asia. A small body of water separated the two people, but every night Leander would swim the lake and go to see Hero. She hung a lamp out her balcony window for this purpose, so he could find his way in the dark. One night, however, a storm was blowing the waves against him, and at last he sunk below the waves. When his body washed up on the shore the next day, Hero saw it and, heartbroken, jumped into the lake to drown. |
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