| General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...Greece — a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ?— Our fathers bind. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ? Of the tbree hundred grant but tbree, To make a new Thermopylae ! What ! silent still,— and silent all !... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'T is but the living who... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...Spartan dead ! ^/ Of the three hundred grant but three, f To make a new Thermopylae. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the... | |
| Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more bless'd — Must we but blush ? — our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come ; we come ! " 'Tis but the living who... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 366 pages
...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! 8. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed ? Must toe but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" Tis but the living who are... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must toe but weep o'er days more blest 1 Must we but blush 1 — Our fathers bled. Earth, render back from out thy...Thermopylae ! What, silent still ! and silent all 7 Ah, no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living... | |
| George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...poet here 1 For Greeks P. blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still 1 and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back fiom out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae I 8. What, silent still ? and silent all . Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
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