Original (English)

BOOK I—THE COMING OF PARIS Of the coming of Paris to the house of Menelaus, King of Lacedaemon, and of the tale Paris told concerning his past life. I. All day within the palace of the King    In Lacedaemon, was there revelry, Since Menelaus with the dawn did spring    Forth from his carven couch, and, climbing high    The tower of outlook, gazed along the dry White road that runs to Pylos through the plain,    And mark’d thin clouds of dust against the sky, And gleaming bronze, and