Ulysses, it must be confessed,
In flirting quite forgot his duty.
He flirted here, he flirted there,
In fact he flirted everywhere—
With Calypso, Nausicaa, Circe—
And he a man of family—Mercy!
Penelope, dissolved in tears,
Bewailed her spouse—the faithless Turk!
And stood off suitors twenty years
By doing endless fancy work.