The Adventure a Romantic Variation On a Homeric Theme
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Ulysses : Comrades. Men: Ulysses ! Ulysses ! Silence ! Let us hear him ! Ulysses : Comrades, and chiefly you, in whom this Queen With wondrous hands hath wrought a blissful thing So that ye seem more gladsome to me now Than ever erst : but also all of you 88 The Adventure Whom I deserted, driven, I knew not why Up hither against my word and counsel whom Beside the ship I left, and over you Many a fear kept watch : Comrades, I bid you Here on the sill of this most ancient place Kneel down beside... me, and do reverence Before its Queen. (They all kneel except Captain. } Circe, to Ulysses : You must not kneel to me. Ulysses : Have you not kneeled in your own halls to me ? Circe : Nay, for my life I kneeled ! Ulysses : Now we for ours. Circe : You have won them all who won your liberty And took my peril. Rise ! nay, do not kneel ! Yonder's a man that is of mind with me, But still he doubts our welcome. Ulysses : Cousin, cousin, Are you the sole among my comrades who Is not my comrade ? Captain : Never can my heart Consent to honour her !
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