Against the Golden City of the sea.[205]

—Oh! for a soul to fire thy dust, Thermopylæ!

VII.

Hear yet again, ye mighty!—Where are they

Who, with their green Olympic garlands crown’d,

Leap’d up in proudly beautiful array,

As to a banquet gathering, at the sound

Of Persia’s clarion? Far and joyous round,

From the pine forests, and the mountain snows,

And the low sylvan valleys, to the bound