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FIFTH BOOK OF HOMER'S ODYSSEY.
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 But mighty Neptune, coming from amongThe Ethiopians, saw him. Far awayHe saw, from mountain heights of Solyma,The voyager, and burned with fiercer wrath,And shook his head, and said within himself: "Strange! now I see the gods have new designsFor this Ulysses, formed while I was yetIn Ethiopia. He draws near the landOf the Pheacians, where it is decreedHe shall o'erpass the boundary of his woes;But first, I think, he will have much to bear." He spoke, and round about him called the cloudsAnd roused the ocean, wielding in his handThe trident, summoned all the hurricanesOf all the winds, and covered earth and skyAt once with mists, while from above, the nightFell suddenly. The east wind and the southRushed forth at once, with the strong-blowing west,
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