To bleak Gonoëssa's windswept walls;
Perchance our wondering eyes shall see
Eleusin's awful mystery;845
Or Elis, where great heroes strove
To win the Olympic crown of Jove.850
Then welcome, stranger lands beyond the sea!
Let breezes waft our wretched band,
Where'er they list, to any land;
If only Sparta's curséd state
(To Greeks and Trojans common fate)