I will make further trial of thy discretion, and the boldness of thy heart.

Seest thou the utmost peak of yonder steep mountain?
The dark stream which flows down thence waters the Stygian fields, and swells the flood of Cocytus.

Bring me now, in this little urn, a draught from its innermost source." And therewith she put into her hands a vessel of wrought crystal.
And Psyche set forth in haste on her way to the mountain, looking there at last to find the end of her hapless life.

But when she came to the region which borders on the cliff that was showed to her, she understood the deadly nature of her task.

From a great rock, steep and slippery, a horrible river of water poured forth, falling straightway by a channel exceeding narrow into the unseen gulf below.