That here great Lacedæmon’s glory fell;
Here once she flourished, at whose trumpet’s sound
War burst his chains, and nations shook around;
Here brave Leonidas from shore to shore
Through all Achaia bade her thunders roar:
He, when imperial Xerxes from afar
Advanced with Persia’s sumless hosts to war,
Till Macedonia shrunk beneath his spear,
And Greece all shuddered as the chief drew near;
He, at Thermopylæ’s decisive plain,