Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Ithaca | | Ulysses on His Return | | Uncertain |
| | Translated by J. H. Merivale
HAIL, Ithaca, my loved paternal soil! | |
| How, after years of travel, war, and toil, | |
| How, after countless perils of the sea, | |
| My heart, returning, fondly clings to thee! | |
| Where I shall once more bless my father’s age, | 5 |
| And smooth the last steps of his pilgrimage; | |
| Again embrace my wife, again enjoy | |
| The sweet endearments of mine only boy. | |
| Now, from my soul, I feel how strong the chain | |
| That binds the passions to our native plain. | 10 | | | |
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