Greece

When life contracts into a vulgar span,

And human nature tires to be a man,

I thank the gods for Greece,

That permanent realm of peace.

For as the rising moon far in the night

Checkers the shade with her forerunning light,

So in my darkest hour my senses seem

To catch from her Acropolis a gleam.

Greece, who am I that should remember thee,

Thy Marathon and thy Thermopylæ?

Is my life vulgar, my fate mean,

Which on such golden memories can lean?

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