Odysseus plays one last trick before the story ends
He goes to see Laertes in his orchard and pretends
to be a traveller. He asks "old man, d'you know
If this is where Odysseus lives? I met him long ago."
"Oh woe is me" Laertes cries "that man you seek's my son
He's been away for twenty years, I'm sure that he is done!"
"Not so, it's me!" his son exclaims "I have come home at last"
He recounts the whole story which we'll skip over quite fast
Though the suitors have gone down to Hades, now their kin
Would avenge the murders and a battle does begin
But, no sooner's battle joined then Athene descends
Down from Mount Olympus and proclaims "Let's all be friends"
No-one's all that keen to fight and they agree to cease
Everybody goes back home, and Ithaka's at peace.
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