From "A DAY WITH HOMER"

METHOUGHT the stream of Time had backward rolled,

And I was standing on the fruitful plain

That lay between the sea and ancient Troy.

I saw one standing on the curving beach

Whose hoary locks were playthings for the wind

That freshening came across the swelling waves.

I listened to the mystic music of a voice

That chanted to their measured beat, in tones