 | Thomas Shorter - 1861
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further 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 dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians'... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861
...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest."* 3. 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'... | |
 | James Bell Forsyth - 1861 - 181 pages
...subdue Greece were made within a few miles' distance from the spot where I was then standing: " 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'... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 395 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... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further 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 Persian's... | |
 | Christopher Cooke - 1864
...the vicinity ; for now Byron's stanza seems more than ever applicable to this memorable plain : 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864
...place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which echo further 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 dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 388 pages
...is heard in common conversation and description, and in moral reflection, or calm reasoning ; as, 1. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 480 pages
...491. Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Canto il\. Stanza 86. v. 1. 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. Canto lli. Stanza 86. v. 3.... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866
...where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, but all, except their 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 free: for standing on the Persians'... | |
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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. 
