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By Britons plunder'd, and by Moslems chained;
Time-honoured soil, where god-like Plato taught,
Where Pindar sung, and Spartan valour fought;
Thy storied clime bedewed with Hellic gore,
Thy martyred freedom—who will not deplore?
When Contemplation takes her silent stand
To mourn the havoc of thy beauteous land,
How fondly weeping Mem'ry stoops to trace
Each monumental wreck and marble grace,
Each pillar'd relic of the proud and free,
Each hallowed bust, that, Athens, breathes of thee!
Each graven tomb-pile of some patriot son
Who dared—as Freedom did at Marathon!
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