Who is the speaker in this excerpt from Book 13 of Homers Odyssey, and what inference can you make from the tone? Shall then no more, O sire of gods! be mine
The rights and honours of a power divine?
Scorn'd e'en by man, and (oh severe disgrace!)
By soft Phaeacians, my degenerate race!
Against yon destined head in vain I swore,
And menaced vengeance, ere he reachd his shore:
To reach his natal shore was thy decree,
Mild I obey'd, for who shall war with thee?
Behold him landed, careless and asleep.
From all the eluded dangers of the deep:
Lo where he lies, amidst a shining store
Of brass, rich garments, and refulgent ore;
And bears triurnphant to his native isle
A prize more worth than tlion's noble spol.
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