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And Bacchus, knowing that here spoke the son of peasants who many times had gone empty to bed after a day of toilful striving on the rocky uplands of Phrygia, looked a little sadly in the eager face of Midas, and answered: “Be it as thou wilt. Thine shall be the golden touch.”

Answer 1

Do you want me to continue this story, summarize or analyze it, modernize it, or do something else (translate, turn into a poem, etc.)?

If you’d like a continuation in the same style, here’s a short sample next paragraph:

"And Midas, exultant, touched the nearest stone, and it flashed to a clean bright coin in his hand. He laughed aloud and filled his pockets with the glittering spoil; the very bushes by the road seemed to bless him as he passed, for their buds and leaves took on a sheen of burnished metal. Yet even in his joy there lurked a shadow of uneasy wonder, for the touch that made wealth of the common things of life made them also strange and useless; he could not yet see how the gift would test the heart that had begged it."

Tell me which direction you prefer and I’ll continue.