Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Eternal summer gilds them yet,

But all except their sun is set.

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 1.

The mountains look on Marathon,

And Marathon looks on the sea;

And musing there an hour alone,

I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 3.

Earth! render back from out thy breast