Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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GREECE, THE MEDITERRANEAN, AND ROME. |
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GREECE, THE MEDITERRANEAN, AND ROME.
Thou glorious mirror, from whose blue expanse,Like her own Cypris, Greece in beauty rose,
Earth's fairest vision; and from rise to close,
Through each harmonic phase of change and chance,
Saw her bright image on the surface dance
Of thy great magic glass, where still it glows
Changeless 'mid Time's more transitory shows,
An autotype divine, en permanence!
There Judah saw the image of her God,
Abidingly as sky and ocean; Tyre
Purpled the waves, with Carthage counting gold;
There too her mighty outline, at whose nod
Impérial, earth shook, traced as with fire:
But Hellas glows, cast in diviner mould.
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