'Hear me, Poseidon, if I am indeed thy son and thou my father. May
this Ulysses never reach his home! or, if the Fates have ordered
that he should reach it, may he come alone, all his comrades lost,
and come to find sore trouble in his house!'

"And as he ended, he hurled another mighty rock, which almost
lighted on the rudder's end, yet missed it as by a hair's breadth.
And the wave that it raised was so great that it bare us to the
other shore.

"So we came to the island of the wild goats, where we found our
comrades, who, indeed, had waited long for us in sore fear lest we
had perished. Then I divided amongst my company all the sheep
which we had taken from the Cyclops. And all, with one consent,
gave me for my share the great ram which had carried me out of the
cave, and I sacrificed it to Zeus. And all that day we feasted
right merrily on the flesh of sheep and on sweet wine, and when
the night was come, we lay down upon the shore and slept.




CHAPTER XI

AEOLUS;[Footnote: AE'-o-lus.]
THE LAESTRYGONS;[Footnote: Laes'-try-gons.]
CIRCE [Footnote: Cir'-ce.]

(THE TALE OF ULYSSES)