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45 ODYSSEUS IN THE CAVE OF POLYPHEMUS 45

But to mine offering little heed gave he ; 655

Since deep within his heart the cloud-wrapt Sire ^ Against both friends and fleet sat musing deathful ire.

So till the sun feU did we drink and eat, And all night long beside the billows lay, Till blushed the hills 'neath morning's rosy feet ; eeo Then did I bid my friends, with break of day, Loosen the hawsers, and each bark array ; Who take the benches and the whitening main Cleave with the sounding oars, and sail away. So from the isle we part, not void of pain, ees

Right glad of our own lives, but grieving for the slain.

^ Zeus (Jove), the " father of both gods and men."