Through stormy seas, weird islands, and the land

Of giants, and the gray companions smite

Their shields, and cry, What do we longer here?

Afloat! and let the great waves bear us on!

I know thou growest weary of the realm,

Thy wife, thy son, the people, and thy fame.

I too have had my longings. Am I not

Penelope, who, when Ulysses came

To Sparta, and Icarius bade her choose

Betwixt her sire and wooer, veiled her face