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that its meaning is often too recondite for ready apprehension; but there are passages in it so luminous and so farreaching in their application that only the supreme poets of all time have equalled them. Homer's strength consists in his pictorial descriptions, but also sometimes in pithy reflections on life and human nature; and it is in these latter that Emerson often comes close to him. Most widely known of Homer's epigrams is that reply of Telemachus to Antiochus in the Odyssey, which Pope has rendered: True hospitality is in these terms expressed, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. To which the following couplet from Woodnotes seems almost like a continuation: Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth,--his hall the azure dome; The wise man carries rest and contentment in his own mental life, and is equally himself at the Corona d'italia and on a western ranch; while the weakling runs back to earlier associations like a colt to i