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FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEY.
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As when some builder, skilful in his art,Frames, for a ship of burden, the broad keel,Such ample breadth Ulysses gave the raft.Upon the massy beams he reared a deck,And floored it with long planks from end to end.On this a mast he raised, and to the mastFitted a yard; he shaped a rudder neat,To guide the raft along her course, and roundWith woven work of willow boughs he fencedHer sides against the dashings of the seaCalypso, gracious goddess, brought him storeOf canvas, which he fitly shaped to sails,And, rigging her with cords, and ropes, and stays,Heaved her with levers into the great deep. 'Twas the fourth day; his labors now were done,And, on the fifth, the goddess from her isleDismissed him, newly from the bath, arrayedIn garments given by her, that shod perfumes.
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