Through horrors of land and horrors of sea <br />Bereft and wandering, Odysseus, <br />God-fearing wretch, sought Ithaca; <br />Unfaltering, he plunged into the gloom of Hades; <br />The roar of fierce Charybdis and underwater Scylla's groans <br /> Shook not his noble soul. <br />His patience vanquished cruel fate, it seemed, <br /> And to the dregs he'd drunk the bitter cup. <br />It seemed the heav'ns were done with testing him <br /> And drove him softly, slumbering, <br />To homeland's longed-for cliffs. <br />He waked: what then? He did not know his home.<br /><br />Konstantin Nikolaevich Batiushkov<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/odysseus-fate/
