Greece.—A Sonnet
David Macbeth
Moir
Moir, David Macbeth (pseudonym Delta,
∆)
Δ
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In the public domain
Included in a series of poems published in sequence written under the same pseudonym Δ
(522-524). (KAF)
Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
6
35
524
Land of the muses, and of mighty men !
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Greece
.—A Sonnet
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Land of the muses, and of mighty men !
A shadowy grandeur mantles thee ; serene
As morning skies, thy pictur’d realms are seen,
When ether’s canopy is clear, and when
The very zephyrs pause upon the wing
In ecstasy, and wist not where to stray.—
Beautiful Greece ! more glorious in decay
Than other regions in the flush of spring :
Thy palaces are tenantless ;—the Turk
Hath quenched the embers of the holy fane ;
Thy temples now are crumbling to the plain,
For time hath sapped, and man hath helped the work.
All cannot perish—thy immortal mind
Remains a halo circling round mankind.
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