These all together uplifted their hands, and for that boon made supplication. + 

I shrink with shame from telling the awful deed unrighteously dared, + 

And the doom from Oenone that drave them forth to be men without a nation, + 

And how from the far-famed island-home those mighty heroes fared. + 

I refrain: not every perfect truth its face should prudently show, + 

And how to be silent is oft the wisest thing that a man may know. + 