And sitting there in study brown
They passed the bottle rather free;
Then sang o’er “dead men’s” empty graves,
“Greeks never, never, shall be slaves!”
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(Five verses omitted.)
The Sporting Times, June 14, 1879.
The following lines were quoted by Mr. G. A. Sala, in the Illustrated London News, 24 May, 1879, apropos of a meeting held at Willis’s Rooms, in favour of the claims of Greece to the Treaty rights promised at Berlin:—
The Claims of Greece! The claims of Greece!