With the fresh myrtle and the short-lived rose;

And Parian walls have rung to the dread march of foes.

IV.

A voice of multitudes is on the breeze,

Remote, yet solemn as the night-storm’s roar

Through Ida’s giant-pines! Across the seas

A murmur comes, like that the deep winds bore

From Tempe’s haunted river to the shore

Of the reed-crown’d Eurotas; when, of old,

Dark Asia sent her battle-myriads o’er