Part 7 (2/2)
”Ulysses has lost his cunning for sure, and hunger has turned his brain He is nothe rocks and sleeps all day And his eye is clouded and courage has left his voice Friends, shall we die thus? No man of ye loveth Ulysses better than I love hiht us from the Cyclops' cave and dared the perils of hell All this I know and say before you now But the king is distraught andHe would be the first to join us with the ood red beef roasting on the fire and smell the savoury sainst a feast! He loves good cheer, as beco man”
”My mind doubts me, co even unto this last thing? Have we ever found hi yet? Did he not ht of hot meat does not tickle my belly as well as thine--more, friend, for thou hast a paunch yet and none have I--but I for one trust in the captain He knows”
Then Eurylochus took up his spear as if he had decided and the discussion was over
”Listen,But I would rather die quickly at Scylla's hands than fade into Hades through fa your spears We will choose the best of the herd and sacrifice to the Gods When we reach horeat teifts? The Sun-God, who gives light to all the world, will not grudge us a cow or two Not he 'Tis a er the God and he wreck us in the deep! I put ye this question--Would ye not rather s the cold salt water for athe rocks?”
His pale face worked with the force of his words His eyes glistened with a terrible eagerness As he spoke in a high, quivering nervous tenor, shaking his spear at theerness crept into their eyes also
Faely transforms the human face They became men with brute's eyes
Eurylochus marched away out of the shelter towards the pasture lands, and the others followed hith seemed to come to them as they walked towards the herd, which could be seen, a red brownon a plain some half-mile away
The full force of the wind struck and retarded the of the cattle to their ears and they pressed on
Ulysses lay sleeping about a quarter of a mile from the cove
He had wandered away fro weeks the gale had roared past the island away to the north
The rain had fallen like spears, the thunder sta snapped like whips of light In all this the king saw the finger of evil He knew that the ry eyes For this stor of the eleainst hiot lower and lower, the rumble, and black looks of reproach met his eyes on every side
And all the tirass, the full udder dropped with creareat beasts sent an alluringmen
Often Ulysses withdrew into some lonely place and prayed to Athene, but she see sign
On this day hope seemed to have utterly departed from him There was no break in the leaden clouds of the future
He had wandered away along the seashore, and fallen asleep froale overhead
In his sleep he dreamed vividly He saw the interior of the island
Suddenly, froht shot up heavenwards He knew that one of the shepherd nye for the God, and he shi+vered and reat place of cloud, an ih the mist came a terrible voice which turned hier
”Oh, Father Zeus, and all ye Gods ell upon the hill above the thunder! punish the comrades of Ulysses for their crime They have speared reat pleasure Whenever I turnedin my island And now these whelps have slain the finest of all o far down into hell and leave the world in gloom and shi+ne no hter, and the world all grey and full of death”
In thein his ears With a sick apprehension he hurried along the slippery boulders to the shelter place where he had left the crew
Within a hundred yards of the place he knew the worst The wind blew a savoury smoke towards him, and his stomach yearned while his brain trelee when he careat joints turned upon rough spits, skins and horns encu into the fire
A sudden silence fell upon their merriesture of despair
”Co against my advice, and now it is done we must abide by the deed I cannot reproach you Still, I know that we ainst the Sun-God Farewell, Ithaca! And now it is over let us eat of our unhallowed spoil It ether, coe and oan to creep about like live things upon the ground