...Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Recal its virtues back, and vanquish Time and Fate? LXXIX. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; * ' Plivle, which commands a beautiful view of...

...still considerable remaim : ft was seized hy Thrasy bulus previous to the expulsion of the Thirty .' There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Memleli's marbles glare:...

...which need not such a contrast with their pristine glory, to render them intolerable. Unhappy Greece! Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus y,elds! There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds— • The freeborn wanderer of thy mountain...

...only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas !** '"• LXXXVII. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...

...Lingering like me, perehanee, to gaze, and sigh " Alas !" LXXXVH. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy erags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smil'd, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blythe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...

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...strangers only not regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh 'Alar!" txxxvn. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet...There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The frceborn wanderer of thy mountain-air; Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, a Still in his beam...

...spacious aspect and deep-blue tinge described by Byron : " Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags aa wild, Sweet are thy groves and verdant are thy fields,...Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymethus yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer...

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...and beautifully has the poet described the unfading loveliness of nature amidst the decay of art : Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...are thy fields; Thine olive ripe, as when Minerva smil'd ; And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields. TBtWtj'the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...