...evidence as among the plains and cities of that storied land. " Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould,...each deepening glen and wold, Defies the power which crushed thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon." Amazing as it may seem,...

...feelings when he says: "Where'er we tread 'tis haunted holy ground ; No earth of thine Is lost in rulgar mould. But one vast realm of wonder spreads around And all the muses tales seem truly told. Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams...

...marbles glare; Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair. "Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould,...each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crushed thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon." The very name of the...

...marbles glare; Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair. "Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould,...each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crushed thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon." The very name of the...

...shone like alabaster in the sunshine. But it was all wonderful. Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one...around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told. On this homeward journey we both were ill with chicken-pox, no pleasant malady. Annie started her attack...

...when Minerva smiled, And still his honies wealth Hymettus yields. Where'er we tread 'tis haunted holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould,...each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crushed they temples gone Age shakes Athenae's tower but spares grey Marathon. Search Byron, as a centenary...

...beautiful of cities is contained in famous lines of rapture : " Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould,...around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told." During the first visit to Athens, they paid their first, historic visit to Marathon. Then they voyaged...

...the scene of public action, as Byron put it, on observing for the first time the fields of Marathon "the sense aches with gazing to behold / The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon."2 The sense cannot ache if it has not been educated; the beholding of the site has no resonance...

...the romanticizing of Greece and to the Philhellenic movement: Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould,...spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly old, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon. (Childe...

...still thy long, long summer gilds. Canto U] [Canto IL LXXXVIH. Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy s mate, Ye knew nor me, nor monarchs, nor mankind....seeks not Reluctant love even from Assyria's lord 1 crush 'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon. LXXXIX. The sun, the...