Eur.Silence, the music sounds.
(Eumæus bears food to Ulysses, who eats and drinks during Phemius’ ode.)
PHEMIUS.
1.
Happy are the earth’s heirs:
Who, that his toilsome lot
And hard-won gain compares,
Admires and envies not?
At one time one, at another another best,
Come mortal pleasures, troubling sweet content;