“My queen and goddess, I know indeed that Penelope can never compare with such immortal loveliness as yours. Yes, she will grow old and wrinkled, and must die. Yet night and day all my heart must go out to her, and I would endure a thousand storms and sorrows to see home once more.”
“Because of my great love for you, go, and may all the gods shower blessings on you and protect you,” she said in a low voice, and her eyes were all blind with tears.
On a red evening Calypso stood alone on a rock that jutted out into the sea.
A black speck against the setting sun showed clear and far away.
Then the night fell, and she wandered weeping through her scented avenues.
But her heart was away on the moaning sea, away with Ulysses the departed.
THE LAST EPISODE
How the King came Home again after the Long Years
With the tears blinding his eyes, with shaking hands, speechless with the happy thoughts surging in his brain, Ulysses knelt and kissed the dear, dear shores of his own country.