To make a new Thermopylæ!
What, silent still? and silent all?
Ah! no: the voices of the dead
Sound like a distant torrent’s fall,
And answer, “Let one living head,
But one arise,—we come, we come!”
’Tis but the living who are dumb.
In vain—in vain; strike other chords;
Fill high the cup with Samian wine!
Leave battles to the Turkish hordes,