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But why tell the remainder of my toils? To thee, O King, and to thy noble wife I told how I came from Calypso's Island, and I am not one to repeat a plain-told tale. Odysseus finished, and the company in the hall sat silent, like men enchanted. Then King Alcinous spoke and said, 'Never, as far as we Phæacians are concerned, wilt thou, Odysseus, be driven from thy homeward way.
In the morning we are running off Gozo, a subordinate island to Malta, intersected with innumerable enclosures of dry-stone dykes similar to those used in Selkirkshire, and this likeness is increased by the appearance of sundry square towers of ancient days. In former times this was believed to be Calypso's island, and the cave of the enchantress is still shown.
It was so impatient for flight, that its feet had to be chained to the ground the wise Calypso's doing with a little plain prose, a detail or two of preliminary arrangement, and then.... Calypso, it transpired, had certain household matters of which the "King" of course, was ever divinely oblivious that would take her on an errand into the town.
Zeus prophecies that after twenty days sailing, Odysseus will reach Scheria, and the hospitable Phaeacians, a people akin to the Gods, who will convey him to Ithaca. Hermes accomplishes the message to Calypso. These days are occupied by Odysseus in making and launching a raft; on the twelfth day from the beginning of the action he leaves Calypso's isle.
It needed but one glance to realise that here was Calypso's mother; and, as was natural, I stood a long time scanning the countenance that was so like the face which, from my first sight of it, had seemed the loveliest in the world. This was a flower that had been the mother of a flower.
Do thou, amidst the fair white walls, If Cadiz yet be free, At times from out her latticed halls Look o'er the dark blue sea Then think upon Calypso's isles, Endear'd by days gone by, To others give a thousand smiles, To me a single sigh. The only other adventure of the visit is Byron's quarrel with an officer, on some unrecorded ground, which Hobhouse tells us nearly resulted in a duel.
No more a boy, but a young man, and in a garb that bespeaks him of the quarter-deck not before the mast, for he is now the Calypso's third officer. And her second is not far-off; he is the generous youth who was the means of getting him the berth.
This, in all probability, is the "Calypso's Isle" of the classics, but now the less poetical "Botany Bay" of the Italians.
For he had long grown weary of his soft slavery in Calypso's cave, and yearned with exceeding great desire for the familiar hills of Ithaca, so rugged, but so dear. And there Calypso found him now, sitting on a rock with dejected mien. She sat down at his side, and said: "A truce to thy complaints, thou man of woes!
The air was sweet with the scent of late apple-bloom and lilac and Hamil, brooding there on his bench in the sun, clasped his thin hands over his walking-stick and bent his head to the fragrant memories of Calypso's own perfume the lilac-odour of China-berry in bloom, under the Southern stars.
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