“_But water I will store on it and bread, And the red wine wherewith is comforted Man’s heart, that you be stayed from famishing; And lend you raiment; and your sail to spread_ “_Will send a following wind, that free from ill Home you may win, if such indeed the will Be of the Gods, who hold wide heaven, and are Greater than I to purpose and fulfil._“[11] The great good news was too wonderful for Odysseus to believe. Bewildered and doubting, he forgot his usual courtesy, and uttered an ungracious speech. Is she not deceiving him? Does she not intend some evil? “_Other is here thy device, O goddess—not homeward to send me— While on a raft thou bidd’st me retraverse a gulf of the ocean Such in its terrors and perils that never a well-built vessel Voyaging swiftly and gladdened by Zeus-sent breezes will cross it. Ne’er will I mount on a raft—still less if it give thee displeasure— Art thou not willing to swear me an oath and solemnly promise Never against me to plot a device that is evil to harm me._“[10] Odysseus had suffered so much at the hands of angry gods that he could not give credit to Calypso’s generosity. He suspected her of anger too; and rather than risk the perils of an awful voyage like the last, he would remain here upon the island. His words would have embittered a smaller soul; but Calypso saw what was passing in his mind, and answered him playfully: “_The Goddess bright and bland Calypso, smiling, stroked him with her hand, and spoke a word and answered: “Verily A rogue you are, and quick to understand,_ _Such words are these you have devised to say!”_[11] And then, knowing that he was really apprehensive of danger, her voice dropped to a deeper tone, as she gave him the solemn oath of the great gods. “_Now Earth I take to record here to-day, And the wide heaven above us, and the dread Water abhorred that trickles down alway,_ “_(Which is the mightiest and most dread to break Of all the oaths the blessed Gods may take) No practice for your hurt will I devise, But take such thought and counsel for your sake_ “_As for mine own self I would reckon good, If in the like extremity I stood. For my own heart is righteous, nor my heart Iron within me, but of piteous mood._“[11]