The hill-top shone

In the last rays. Athens was growing dark.

Tyrtamus answered him. “A colder cup

Of hemlock, and the fate of Socrates.”

The Master looked at Athens. Far away

He traced the glimmering aisle of olive-trees

Where, for so long, with many a youthful friend

He had walked, and taught, and striven himself to learn.

Southward, below the Acropolis, he could see

The shadowy precincts of the Asclepiads,