Wednesday, 18 March 2009

The Odyssey: Book Sixteen

The suitors ambush hasn't posed Telemachus great danger
He comes to see Eumaios and he asks "who is that stranger?"
His father he can't recognise, the truth will soon be learned
Eumaios goes to tell Penelope her son's returned
Odysseus reveals himself, exclaims "I am your father!"
Telemachus is not convinced and says "I think that rather
you must be an immortal, this is your idea of fun!"
"No, Athene helped disguise me, but you are my son!"
The suitors ambush having failed, they claim to mean no ill
against young Telemachus, but they still mean to kill!

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