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_Muse, / tell me of this man of wit, / who roamed long years / after he had sacked / Troy's sacred streets._
All the rest / who had escaped death, / returned, / fleeing battle and the sea; / only Odysseus, / captive of a goddess, / desperate and home-sick, / thought but of his wife and palace; / but Calypso, / that nymph and spirit, / yearning in the furrowed rock-shelf, / burned / and sought to be his mistress; / but years passed, / the time was ripe, / the gods decreed, / (although traitors plot / to betray him in his own court,) / he was to return / to Ithaca; / and all the gods pitied him; / but Poseidon / steadfast to the last / hated / god-like Odysseus.