_Now was the fourth day come, and all of his labour was ended; So on the fifth day sped his departing the goddess Calypso, Bathing him first and arraying him freshly in fragrant apparel. Then to the raft she conveyed dark wine in a bottle of goat-skin —One was of wine and another, a greater, of water—and viands Stowed in a wallet; and many a toothsome relish she added. Then did she send him a favouring breeze both gentle and kindly._[10] So Calypso was left alone again on her little island; and Odysseus, speeding before a favouring wind, was too absorbed to give much thought to her. Freedom and the thought of home filled him with exultation; and all his care was bent to navigate the boat. But a grateful memory of her survived in aftertimes; and often he would recall her words to him, when she had given him the vow of good faith: _For my own mind is righteous, nor my heart Iron within me, but of piteous mood._[11] ----- Footnote 10: From Mr H. B. Cotterill’s translation of the _Odyssey_ (Harrap & Co.). Footnote 11: From Professor J. W. Mackail’s translation of the _Odyssey_ (John Murray). _Homer: Nausicaa_ Nausicaa was the only daughter of Alcinous, King of Phaeacia. Young and beautiful, reared amid abundant wealth, the idol of parents and stalwart brothers, she is yet simple and sweet and quite unspoiled. Her father was lord over a rich seafaring folk; a kindly, generous, impetuous man. Her mother, Queen Arete, was a star among women; so wise and noble that the people saluted her as a god, and Alcinous worshipped her with absolute devotion. There is hardly anything in Homer more beautiful than the loving description that Nausicaa gives of her mother sitting beside Alcinous in the great hall like a benign goddess, ready to stretch a welcoming hand to the stranger and the suppliant. Even the great goddess Athena had words of praise for Arete, when she met Odysseus on the road coming up from the harbour: “_Her Alcinous took to wife, And honoured her as living woman none_ “_Of wedded wives is honoured upon earth: Such is the worship paid her (and her worth No less) by King Alcinous our lord And by the children who from them have birth._ “_Yea, all her people, when she goes abroad, Salute her and account her as a god. For of so excellent a wit is she, Her woman’s wisdom puts a period_ “_To strife of men who in her favour stand. And if to you she reach a helping hand, Hope you may have to see your friends, and reach Your high-roofed house, and your own native land._”[12]