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The Odyssey, Tr. Into Engl. Verse by P.s. Worsley
The Odyssey Tr Into Engl Verse by Ps Worsley Author:Homerus General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: " But come now, tell me this, and show me plain: How many seasons have now passed and gone Since thou thy hapless friend didst entertain, Whose life so miserably the Fates have spun, Thy friend, and, if I dream not, once my son ? Who from his own hath perished far away, Iteft of his country, and no grave hath won ; But torn by fishes in the deep he lay, Or to wild beasts and birds on land became a prey. " Nor were his mother and his sire decreed To shroud him for the burning, nor lament Their own dear child, the offspring of our seed ; No, nor the wife so goodly eminent In reason, riches, and a pure intent, Penelope herself, the dirge did cry Over her dear lord on the couch, nor bent To press the cold lip and the lightless eye, And the last rite fulfil, the meed of those that die. " But tell me truly, for I fain would know, Whence be thy parents, and thy country where, And where the bark, that o'er the wide sea-flow Thee with thy comrades to our island bare ? Or to some trader didst thou pay thy fare, Who set thee on our shore, and went his way V And answering spake the wise Odysseus there : " Now the whole story thou dost bid me say, I will to thee set forth in order, as I may. " From Alybas I come, there lies my home, Child of Apheidas, Polypemon's son, And I am named Eperitus. I roam By the god's blast unwillingly sent on From Sicily; my bark hath moorings won Beyond the city. Since he left our strand, Even Odysseus, four full years are gone. Good birds of omen nocked on his right hand, When, with a glad farewell, he gladly left the land. " And still within our heart expected we...« less