O’er thee, unmark’d, the sunbeams fade or glow,

And wild-flowers wave, unbent by human tread;

And midst thy silence, as the grave’s profound,

A voice, a step, would seem as some unearthly sound.

LVIII.

Taÿgetus still lifts his awful brow

High o’er the mouldering city of the dead,

Sternly sublime; while o’er his robe of snow

Heaven’s floating tints their warm suffusions spread.

And yet his rippling wave Eurotas leads