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DescriptionChildren of the Dawn  ยท author: Elsie Finnimore Buckley published: 1908 language: English wordcount: 94,819 / 255 pg flesch-kincaid reading ease: 73.5 downloads: 44 added to site: 2015.03.10 mnybks.net#: 31989 genre: Fiction and Literature Book Description le over them in days to come." For as yet they knew not that he was a foundling, and no true heir to the throne. Now, while the child was still young, he played about the courts of the palace, and in running and leaping and in feats of strength and hardihood of heart there was none to beat him among his playmates, or even to stand up against him, save one. But so well matched were these two, that the other children would gather round them in a ring to watch them box and wrestle, and the victor they would carry on their shoulders round the echoing galleries with shouting and clapping of hands; and sometimes it was OEdipus, and sometimes the other lad. But at length there came a time when again and again OEdipus was proved the stronger, and again and again the other slunk home beaten, like a cur that has been whipped: and he brooded over his defeat, and nourished hatred in his heart against OEdipus, and vowed that one day he would have his revenge by fair means or by foul.. ..  Sharing Widget |