The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Vol. 13
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Excerpt from The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Vol. 13: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations; With a Life of the Author The Odyssey. Book I. Muse, make the man thy theme, for shrewdness famed And genius versatile, who far and wide A Wanderer, after Ilium overthrown. Discovered various cities, and the mind And manners learn´d of men in lands remote. He numerous woes, on Ocean toss´d, endured, Anxious to save himself, and to conduct His followers to their home; yet all his care Preserved them ¬ they perish´d self-destroy´d By their own fault; infatuate! who devour´d The oxen of the all-o´erseeing Sun, And, punish´d for that crime, return´d no more. Daughter divine of Jove, these things record, As it may please thee, even in our ears. The rest, all those who had perdition scaped By war or on the Deep, dwelt now at home; Him only, of his country and his wife Alike desirous, in her hollow grots Calypso, Goddess beautiful, detain´d Wooing him to her arms. But when, at length, About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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