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...Worth: • Save where some solitary column mourns Above its prostrate brethren of the cave; Save whece Tritonia's airy shrine adorns Colonna's cliff, and...blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free horn wanderer of thy mour'.ain air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's... | |
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...shutterM splendour renovate, Recnl ils virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate?" p. 103. '" Yet ore thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy...groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe aswhen Minerva srnil'd, And mill his huuied wealth •Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bite his fragrant... | |
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...strangers only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alae!" Yet arc thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are .thy tk-'-b, Thin« olive j ipc as when: Minerva srail'd, And still his honied wealth Hyihcltitl yields... | |
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...thy surface bow, Comminglmg slowly with heroic earth, Bioke by the share of every rustic plough." " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild. Sweet...are thy fields ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds.... | |
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...strangers only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas!" LXXIX. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet...There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam... | |
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...Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recal its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate? LXXIX. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; * ' Plivle, which commands a beautiful view of Athena, has still considerable remains : it was seileii... | |
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...Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, ftecal its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate? LXX1X. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...smil'd, . And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; * * Phylerwhich commands a beautiful view of Athens, has still considerable remains: it wu seized by... | |
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...only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas !** '"• LXXXVII. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain-air ; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam... | |
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