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July 1967 Issue
July 1967 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Canada
    Brian Stock
  • The Permanent Resident
    Carol Barsi
  • Popcorn
    Daniel J. Langton
  • Shoprite Tours
    Robert Lasson and David Eynon
  • Bergamot Country
    Leslie Gardiner
  • Epitaph: Ithaca
    Richard O’Connell
Poem

Epitaph: Ithaca

By Richard O’Connell
July 1967 Issue
Saved Stories
Odysseus lies here by the rock-roar, the gull-scream:
Safe from the fury of a home and a wife.