Book VII · Prayer and Rest · Scene 1 of 2
Odysseus prays Zeus fulfill the promise
21So spoke the king, and the great sufferer
Odysseus heard with gladness, and preferred
A prayer, and called on Zeus and said: —
22“Grant, Father Zeus, that all the king has said
May be fulfilled! so shall his praise go forth
Over the foodful earth, and never die,
And I shall see my native land again.”
Homer, The Odyssey, translated by William Cullen Bryant, 1871. Public domain.