Now she restored them, and knowing the will of the gods, made good cheer for us all, so that we abode with her for one year. Nor might we depart thence till I had made journey to the abode of Hades to get speech of Tiresias the Seer. Whereby I saw made shades of famous folk, past recounting. Thence returning, Circe suffered us to be gone; with warning of perils before us, and of how we should avoid them. First to the Sirens. Whoso hears the call Of any Siren, he will so despise Both wife and children, for their sorceries, That never home turns his affection's stream, Nor they take joy in him nor he in them. Next monstrous Scylla. Six long necks look out Of her rank shoulders; every neck doth let A ghastly head out; every head, three set, Thick thrust together, of abhorred teeth, And every tooth stuck with a sable death; Charybdis, too, whose horrid throat did draw The brackish sea up. These we saw And escaped only in part. Then came they to the island where are fed the Oxen of the Sun; and because his comrades would slay them, destruction came upon them, and Ulysses alone came alive to the isle of Calypso. _III_.--_How Ulysses Came Back to Ithaca_ Now, when Ulysses had made an end, it pleased Alcinous and all the Phæacians that they should speed him home with many rich gifts. So they set him in a ship, and bore him to Ithaca, and laid him on the shore, yet sleeping, with all the goodly gifts about him, and departed. But he, waking, wist not where he was till Pallas came to him. Who counselled him how he should deal with the Wooers, and disguised him as a man ancient and worn. Then Ulysses sought and found the faithful swine-herd Eumæus, who made him welcome, not knowing who he was, and told him of the ill-doing of the suitors. But Pallas went and brought back Telemachus from Sparata, evading the Wooers' ambush. Out rushed amazed Eumæus, and let go The cup to earth, that he had laboured so, Cleansed for the neat wine, did the prince surprise, Kissed his fair forehead, both his lovely eyes, And wept for joy. Then entering, from his seat His father rose to him; who would not let The old man remove, but drew him back, and prest With earnest terms his sitting, saying, "Guest, Take here your seat again." Eumæus departing, Pallas restored Ulysses to his own likeness, and he made himself known to Telemachus, and instructed him.