Robert Hatcher June 1910

THE

ODYSSEY OF HOMER

DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE

BY

S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.

Hon. LL.D. Glasgow, Hon. Litt.D. Dublin
Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh
Formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
and of University College, Oxford

AND

A. LANG, M.A.

Hon. LL.D. St. Andrews

London

MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1906

LIBRARY

Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, March 1879.
Revised and reprinted November 1879, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887,
1890, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1903, 1906.

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,

A. L.