Classic Narration - The Oddyssey

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An Excerpt from The Oddyssey by Homer. Ulysses wife's oration, and Narrator.

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English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

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when she heard the shirt proofs Ulysses now gave her, she fairly broke down. She flew, weeping to his side, flung her arms about his neck and kissed him. Do not be angry with me, Ulysses. She cried. You, who are the wisest of mankind? Way have suffered both of us. Heaven has denied us the happiness of spending our youth and growing old together. Do not then be aggrieved or taking a mist that I did not embrace you. That's a soon as I saw you. I have been shuttering all the time through fear that someone might come here and deceive me with a lying story where there are many very wicked people going about. Joe's daughter, Helen would never have yielded herself to a man from a foreign country if she had known that the sons of McKeon's would come after her and bring her back, Heaven put it in her heart to do wrong. And she gave no thought to that sin, which has been the source of all our sorrows now, however, that you have convinced me by showing that you know all about our bed, which no human being has ever seen. But you and I, and a single maidservant, the daughter of actor who was given me by my father on my marriage and who keeps the doors of our room heart of belief, though I've been, I can mistrust no longer. Then Ulysses, in his turn, melted and wept as he clasped his dear and faithful wife to his bosom as the sight of land is welcome to men who are swimming towards the shore when Neptune has wrecked their ship with the fury of his winds and waves. A few alone reached the land, and these covered with Brian are thankful when they find themselves on firm ground and out of danger. Even so, was her husband welcome to her as she looked upon him and she could not tear her to fair arms from about his neck. Indeed, they would have gone on indulging their sorrow til rosy fingered mourn appeared had not been Nerva determined otherwise, and held night back in the far west. While she would not suffer dawn to leave oceanics, nor to yoke the two steeds lamps and faith on that bear her onward to break the day upon mankind