Nausicaä’s Admiration

16“Listen to me, my maidens, while I speak.
This man comes not among the godlike sons
Of the Phaeacian stock against the will
Of all the gods of heaven. I thought him late
Of an unseemly aspect; now he bears
A likeness to the immortal ones whose home
Is the broad heaven. I would that I might call
A man like him my husband, dwelling here,
And here content to dwell. Now hasten, maids,
And set before the stranger food and wine.”

17She spoke; they heard and cheerfully obeyed,
And set before Odysseus food and wine.
The patient chief Odysseus ate and drank
Full eagerly, for he had fasted long.