Up the wooded land.
It is shorter than the other, and cuts the line in two. The third is—
through the hills:
a segment still shorter than a clause. The fourth—
unto where Athene had said
That he should light on the goodly swineherd—
consists of two half-lines and is in no way like the former. Then the conclusion—
the man who best
Gave heed to the goods of his lord, of the thralls that Odysseus
possessed,
which leaves the third line unfinished, while by the addition of the fourth it loses all undue uniformity. Then again—
By the house-front sitting he found him,
where once more the words do not run out the full course of the line.