Whisper Thou of beauty

On the other side.

What though sad the story

Of this life’s distress—

Oh, the future glory!

Oh, the loveliness!”

The monk St. Stephen, in the eighth century, lived here and wrote the famous Greek hymn, the well-known English version beginning with the touching verse—

“Art thou weary, art thou languid,

Art thou sore distrest?

Come to Me, saith One, and coming