Homer (Greek Text) - The Odyssey, Book X lyrics

Now Hermes went his way to the steep heights of Olympus, over the island's woods while I, just approaching the halls of Circe, my heart a heaving storm at every step, paused at her doors, the nymph with lovely braids-- I stood and shouted to her there. She heard my voice, she opened her gleaming doors at once and stepped forth, inviting me in, and in I went, all anguish now... She led me in to sit on a silver-studded chair, ornately carved, with a stool to rest my feet. In a golden bowl she mixed a potion for me to drink, stirring her poison in, her heart aswirl with evil. And then she pa**ed it on, I drank it down but it never worked its spell-- she struck with her wand and 'Now,' she cried, 'off to your sty, you swine, and wallow with your friends!' But I, I drew my sharp sword sheathed at my hip and rushed her fast as if to run her through-- She screamed, slid under my blade, hugged my knees with a flood of warm tears and a burst of winging words: 'Who are you? where are you from? your city? your parents? I'm, wonderstruck-- you drank my d**, you're not bewitched! Never has any other man withstood my potion, never, once it's past his lips and he has drunk it down. You have a mind in you no magic can enchant! You must be Odysseus, man of twists and turns-- Hermes the giant-k**er, god of the golden wand, he always said you'd come, homeward bound from Troy in your swift black ship. ***Citations***