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I've never read Fagle. Mine is T.E. Lawrence's translation. I love the opening of that, but I think I'll enjoy Wilson's too:

  O Divine Poesy
  Goddess-Daughter of Zeus
  sustain for me
  this song of the various-minded man
  who after he had plundered
  the innermost citadel of hallowed Troy
  was made to stray grievously
  about the coasts of men
  the sport of their customs good or bad
  while his heart
  through all the sea-faring
  ached in an agony to redeem himself
  and bring his company safe home
  
  Vain hope - for them
  for his fellows he strove in vain
  their own witlessness cast them away
  the fools
  to destroy for meat
  the oxen of the most exalted sun
  wherefore the Sun-god blotted out
  the day of their return

  Make the tale live for us
  in all its many bearings
  O Muse