Homerus THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE BY S. H. BUTCHER, M.A. Hon. LL.D. Glasgow, Hon. Litt.D. Dublin AND A. LANG, M.A. Hon. LL.D. St. Andrews MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED 1917 888 +398 MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON. BOMBAY CALCUTTA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK • BOSTON CHICAGO DALLAS SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO COPYRIGHT Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, March 1879. Revised and reprinted November 1879, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, AS ONE THAT FOR A WEARY SPACE HAS LAIN LULLED BY THE SONG OF CIRCE AND HER WINE IN GARDENS NEAR THE PALE OF PROSERPINE, WHERE THAT AEGAEAN ISLE FORGETS THE MAIN, AND ONLY THE LOW LUTES OF LOVE COMPLAIN, AND ONLY SHADOWS OF WAN LOVERS PINE, AS SUCH AN ONE WERE GLAD TO KNOW THE BRINE SALT ON HIS LIPS, AND THE LARGE AIR AGAIN, SO GLADLY, FROM THE SONGS OF MODERN SPEECH MEN TURN, AND SEE THE STARS, AND FEEL THE FREE SHRILL WIND BEYOND THE CLOSE OF HEAVY FLOWERS AND THROUGH THE MUSIC OF THE LANGUID HOURS, THEY HEAR LIKE OCEAN ON A WESTERN BEACH THE SURGE AND THUNDER OF THE ODYSSEY, 410759 A. L. |