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The Odyssey of Homer done into english verse
The Odyssey of Homer done into english verse Author:Homer Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BOOK III. ARGUMENT. TELEMACHUS SAILS TO PYLOS, AND THERE SEES NESTOR, WHO TELLS HIM OF AGAMEMNON AND MENELAUS, AND SENDS HIM ON TO SPARTA IN THE COMPANY OF... more » PISISTRATUS HIS SON. NOW uprose the Sun, and leaving the exceeding lovely mere Fared up to the brazen heaven, to the Deathless shining clear, And unto deathful men on the corn-kind earth that dwell. But they came to the Burg of Neleus, e'en Pylos builded well, And there on the shore of the sea-flood deeds holy did men do; To the dark-blue haired Earth-shaker bulls spotless black they slew. Nine seats of men there were, and five hundred sat in each band, And for every band of the men nine bulls were held in hand; And now were they tasting the inwards, and to God were burning the thigh, Vhen those fellows ran on the beach and brailed the sails on high, 10 And moored the shapely ship and went thenceforth ashore. So aland was Telemachus wending, and Athene went before; And thus as they went, to him-ward the speech of the Grey-eyed came : " Telemachus, thee it behoveth no longer, the shrinking and shame, Since for this hast thou sailed the sea-flood, that tidings thou might'st gel Of thy father, what earth may hide him, or what is the doom he hath me! So go thou straight unto Nestor, the tamer of the steed, Tnat we learn what his bosom hoardeth of good and helpful rede. But do thou thyself beseech him that he speak straight words to thee ; For no lying speech will he make us, so exceeding wise is he." 20 But Telemachus the heedful in answer spake the word : " What wise shall I go, O Mentor ? what wise shall I greet the lord ? For as yet in all words of wisdom am I untried and weak; And well may a youngling be shamefaced, if speech of an elder he seek.' But the Goddess, the Grey-eyed Athene, to him th...« less