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by Unknown

WRITTEN IN ATHENS.

IERRAS, and eternal tents

Of snow that flashed o’er battlements

Of mountains! My land of the sun,

Am I not true? have I not done

All things for thine, for thee alone,

O sun-land, sea-land, thou mine own?

From other loves and other lands,

As true, perhaps, as strong of hands,