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I am old enough to know a sign when I see one,

When primal Dawn spread on the eastern sky
her fingers of pink light,

Dear friend, you are tall and well set-up, I see;
be brave-you, too-and men in times to come
will speak of you respectfully.

Listen, now, and attend to what I say:

Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story
of that man skilled in all ways of contending,
the wanderer, harried for years on end,
after he plundered the stronghold
on the proud height of Troy.