Edwinus stood next to Homer's stone and recited from memory these words from the poet's tale of Odyseus:

The goddess, gray-eyed Athena, smiled on him,
and stroked him with her hand, and took on the shape of a woman
both beautiful and tall, and well-versed in handiworks,
and spoke aloud to him and addressed him in winged words, saying:
"It would be a sharp one, and a stealthy one,
who would get past you in any contriving;
even if it were a god against you.
You wretch, so devious, never weary of tricks,
then you would not
even in your own country
give over your ways of deceiving
and your thievish tales.
They are near to you in your very nature.
But come, let us talk no more of this,
for you and I both know sharp practice,
since you are far the best of all mortal
men for counsel and stories,
and I among all the divinities
am famous for wit and sharpness;
and yet you never recognized Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus;
the one who is always standing beside you
and guarding you in every endeavor.
And it was I who made you loved by all the Phaiakians.
And now again I am here,
to help you in your devising of schemes,
and to hide the posessions which the haughty Phaiakians bestowed
--it was by my thought and counsel--
on you, as you started for home,
and tell you all the troubles you are destined to suffer
in your well-wrought house;
but you must, of necessity,
endure all,
and tell no one out of all the men and women
that you have come back from your wanderings,
but you must endure much grief in silence,
standing and facing men in their violence."

Book Thirteen, vv.287-310 translation by Richard Lattimore