The gods will come; or shall I say man’s spirit

Hath operative faculties to mix

And make his gods at will? Howe’er that be,

Soon a swift galley shot out from the rest

To meet the comers. That was Agamemnon’s,

They told me; and I doubt not he was in it,

And gave his welcome to Idomeneus,

And took him to his tent. On such a day

Our little boat rowed where we would unmarked:

We were but Chalcian pilots. So I saw