The Tears of Odysseus

"...what I want and all my days I pine for

is to go back to my house and see my day of homecoming.

And if some god batters me far out on the wine-blue water,

I will endure it, keeping a stubborn spirit inside me,

for already have I suffered much and done much hard work

on the waves and in the fighting...."


Tell it, Odysseus, my favorite crybaby!