Mesmerizing songs

We returned to Circe’s island home to bury Elpenor properly. Here was when I spent my last night with Circe; she confided in me and told me everything that I was going to face on my journey home. The next day, I informed all my men of the fate that we were about to face. We approached the island of the Sirens. Oh their voices and intoxicating words. I had my men tie me up to the mast of the sail, while I had them plug their ears with beeswax so that they would not hear the tantalizing words. I was the only one who had to endure the SIrens’ songs. “Therefore, take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope’s ends to the mast itself. If I beg and pray you to set me free, then bind me more tightly still.”  (Book 12) Apparently, I begged and begged to be let go but thankfully, my men listened to my previous instructions and did not let me go. Thankfully.