Not caught Ermao net

Which missed the shield, but bit through flesh and bone,

And drank the blood, and dragged the soul from thence.

So fell the King! And one cried ``Ithaca!

Ah, Ithaca!'' and turned his face and wept.

Then came another - wise Telemachus -

Who knelt beside the man of many days

And pored upon the face; but lo, the life

Was like bright water spilt in sands of thirst,