“Howbeit for that guest-feasting the heroes might not stay, + 

For the lure of the sweet home-coming beckoned them ever away. + 

But Eurypylus he named him, deathless Earth-shaker’s son, + 

Born of the Land-enfolder: yet marking our haste to begone, + 

He put forth his hand, and straightway caught up from the earth a clod + 

As it lay at his feet, and proffered the same as the gift of a god. + 

Nor scorned it Euphemus, but leaping from Argo’s deck to the strand + 

He received that fateful guest-gift, and clasped the giver’s hand. + 

But alas, it abode not with us! Washed over the galley’s side + 

It fleeted away on the sea-brine in the dusk of eventide + 