Fields, that cool Ilissus laves,

Or where Maeander’s amber waves

In lingering lab’rinths creep;

How do your tuneful echoes languish—

Mute, but to the voice of anguish?

Where each old poetic mountain

Inspiration breath’d around:

Ev’ry shade and hallowed fountain

Murmur’d deep a solemn sound:

Till the sad Nine in Greece’s evil hour,