MODERN GREECE.
“O Greece! thou sapient nurse of finer arts,
Which to bright Science blooming Fancy bore,
Be this thy praise, that thou, and thou alone,
In these hast led the way, in these excell’d,
Crown’d with the laurel of assenting Time.”
Thomson’s Liberty.
I.
Oh! who hath trod thy consecrated clime,
Fair land of Phidias! theme of lofty strains!