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odysseus home at last
Book 23: Lines 349-353
Rejoicing in each other, they returned to their bed,
the old familiar place they loved so well.
Now Telemachus, the cowherd and the swineherd
rested their dancing feet and had the women do the same,
and across the shadowed hall the men lay down to sleep.
But the royal couple, once they'd reveled in all
the longed-for-joys of love, reveled in each other's stories,
the radiant woman telling of all she'd borne at home,
watching them there, the infernal crowd of suitors
slaughtering herds of cattle and good fat sheep--
while keen to win her hand--
draining the broached vats dry of vintage wine.
And great Odysseus told his wife of all the painsHe launched in with how he fought the Cicones down,
he had dealt out to other men and all the hardships
he'd endured himself--his story first to last--
and she listened on, enchanted...
Sleep never sealed her eyes till all was told.
then how he came to the Lotus-eaters' lush green land.
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