Icarus Mourned by Nereids
Daedalus made feathered wings with wax to hold them tight,
So he could claim (and his son too) the earliest man-powered flight.
He and his son fled Minos and the cruel regime in Crete.
But Icarus flew too near the sun, whose unexpected heat
Melted the wax that held his wings and plunged him in the sea.
An idea for a picture? Well, a picture new to me.
New? I thought it was, but don't waste pen or paper.
I've found out now the same idea was used by Herbert Draper.
Quite different, but it strikes me now they are too close in kind.
Had Draper's work been lurking deep in my unconscious mind?
