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| A gull patrolling between the wave crests of the desolate sea will dip to catch a fish, and douse his wings | no higher above the whitecaps Hermes flew until the distant island lay ahead |
| A man in a distant field, no hearth fires near, will hide a fresh brand in his bed of embers to keep a spark alive for the next day; | so in the leaves Odysseus hid himself, while over him Athena showered sleep that his distress should end, and soon, soon. |
| In a smithy one sees a white-hot axhead or an adze plunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam-the way they make soft iron hale and hard- | just so that eyeball hissed around the spike. |
| A man surf-casting on a point of rock for bass or mackerel, whipping his long rod to drop the sinker and the bait far out, will hook a fish and rip it from the surface to dangle wriggling through the air; | so these were borne aloft in spasms toward the cliff. |
| Telemachus began to weep. Salt tears rose from the wells of a longing in both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering | as those of the great taloned hawk, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly. |
| Athena's shield took form aloft the great hall. And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded | like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer, in the flowering season, in the long-drawn days. |
| as terrible as falcons from eyries in the mountains veering over and diving down with talons wide unsheathed on flights of birds, who cower down the sky in chutes and bursts along the valley- but the pouncing falcons grip their prey...... | so these now fell upon the suitors in that hall, turning, turning to strike and strike again, while torn men moaned to death, and blood ran smoking over the whole floor |
| Think of gold infused on silver by a craftsman, whose fine art | Hephaestus taught him, or Athena one whose work moves to delight. |
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