The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood

Author:Margaret Atwood [Atwood, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: antique_myths, prose_contemporary
ISBN: 1 84195 645 7
Published: 2005-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

XIII. The Chorus Line: The Wily Sea Captain, A Sea Shanty

Performed by the Twelve Maids, in Sailor Costumes

Oh wily Odysseus he set out from Troy,

With his boat full of loot and his heart full of joy,

For he was Athene’s own shiny-eyed boy,

With his lies and his tricks and his thieving!

His first port of call was the sweet Lotus shore

Where we sailors did long to forget the foul war;

But we soon were hauled off on the black ships once more,

Although we were pining and grieving.

To the dread one-eyed Cyclops then next did ,

He wanted to eat us so we put out his ey

Our lad said, ‘I’m No One,’ but then bragged, ’twas I,

Odysseus, the prince of deceiving!’

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