 | Rev. H. Musgrave Wilkins, M.A., - 1854 - 262 pages
...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest." in. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea ; And, musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 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 Persians'... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...tomb of the 192 Athenians who fell in the battle. No monument marks the graves of the Persian dead. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; — And musing there an hour alone, I drcam'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 pages
...with the deep emotion of the solitary human being standing in the midst of them : 278 LECTURE NINTH. "The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I thought that Greece might still be free ; 3?or standing on the Persian's... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 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 Persians'... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 pages
...also vivifies them with the deep emotion of the solitary human being standing in the midst of them : " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I thought that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 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 Persians'... | |
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - 1855 - 296 pages
...Where Delos rose, and Pkebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except th«ir sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be frotj For standing on the Persian's... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free For standing on the Persian's... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Island of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon— And Marathon looks on the sea; And, musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's... | |
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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 Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 
