‘Happy, Who Like Ulysses…’ by Joachim du Bellay (c. 1559)
Happy, who like Ulysses or that lord Who raped the fleece, returning full and sage, With usage and the world’s wide reason stored, With his own kin can wait the end of age. When shall I see, when shall I see, God knows! My little village smoke; or pass the door, The old dear door of that unhappy house That…