MARATHON.
[Note.—These lines were written shortly after a visit to the plain of Marathon, and personal inspection of the ground. The historical facts are taken from Herodotus; the mythological allusions, and other incidental circumstances, from the two chapters of Pausanias (Att. I., c. 15 & 32), where the paintings of the famous Portico of the Stoics in Athens, and the district of Marathon, are described with characteristic detail.]
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From high Pentelicus’ pine-clad height[[24]]
A voice of warning came,
That shook the silent autumn night
With fear to Media’s name.
Pan from his Marathonian cave[[25]]
Sent screams of midnight terror,
And darkling horror curled the wave