Dawn prayer for a sign

9She spoke. Just then, upon her car of gold,
Appeared Eos. The great Odysseus heard
That voice of lamentation; anxiously
He mused; it seemed to him as if the queen
Stood over him and knew him. Gathering up
In haste the cloak and skins on which he slept,
He laid them in the palace on a seat,
But bore the bull’s hide forth in open air,
And lifted up his hands and prayed to Zeus: —

10“O Father Zeus, and all the gods! if you
Have led me graciously, over land and deep,
Across the earth, and, after suffering much,
To mine own isle, let one of those who watch
Within the palace speak some ominous word,
And grant a sign from you without these walls.”