This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...and, as it gurgles o'er, Laps the warm blood that trickling runs unheeded to the floor! The blood of beauty, wealth, and power--the heart-blood of a queen--The noblest of the Stuart race--the fairest earth has seen, --Lapped by a dog!--a solemn text!--Go, think of it alone; Then weigh, against a grain ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...and, as it gurgles o'er, Laps the warm blood that trickling runs unheeded to the floor! The blood of beauty, wealth, and power--the heart-blood of a queen--The noblest of the Stuart race--the fairest earth has seen, --Lapped by a dog!--a solemn text!--Go, think of it alone; Then weigh, against a grain of sand, the glories of a throne! XII.--HYMN ON MODERN GREECE.--Lord Byron. The of isles Greece I the isles of Greece! where burning Sappho loved and sung; where grew the arts of war and peace; where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung;--eternal summer gilds them yet--but all, except their sun, is set I The Scian and the Teian muse, the hero's harp, the lover's lute, have found the fame your shores refuse: --their place of birth alone is mute to sounds, which echo farther west than your sires' " Islands of the bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon, and Marathon looks on the sea; and musing there an hour, alone, I dreamed--that Greece might still be free! for, standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; and ships, by thousands, lay below, and men, in nations--all were his! He counted them at break of day--and when the sun set, where were they 1 And where are they? and where art thou, my country?--On thy voiceless shore the heroic lay is tuneless now--the heroic bosom beats no more! And must thy lyre, so long divine, degenerate into hands like mine? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, though linked among a fettered race, to feel at least a patriot's shame, even as I sing, suffuse my face I for, what is left the poet here? for Greeks, a blush! for Greece, a tear! Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd? Must we but blush?--our fathers bled. Earth!...
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