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Title: The universal anthology ; a collection of the best literature, ancient, mediaeval and modern, with biographical and explanatory notes
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : Clarke Co., Ltd. New York : Merrill & Baker Paris : E. Terquem Berlin : Bibliothek Verlag
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le bothRomans and Greeks were at that time threatened vith seriousdangers from Philip and Antiochus, yet both these statesmenmaintained the rights of the Achseans in regard to the Romansundiminished; though a report found its way about that Aris-taenus was better affected to the Romans than Philopcemen. HELLAS AND ROME. By lord DE TABLEY. (John Byrne Leicester Warren, Lord de Tablet, was born in 1836,died in 1897. He gained great note as a collector of and writer on book plates,but was also a poet of fine talent. His books were Eclogues and Monodramas (1864), Rehearsals (1870).) Of Greece the Muse of Glory sings, Of Greece in furious onset brave;Whose mighty fleets, on falcon wings, To vengeance sweep across the wave. There on the mounded flats of Troy The hero captains of the mornCome forth and conquer, though the boy Of Thetis keeps his tent in scorn. There in the sweet Ionian prime The much endm-ing sailor goes,And from the thorny paths of time He plucks adventure like a rose. Rome
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HELLAS AND ROME. 399 There sits Atrides, grave and great, Grim king of blood and Inst-deeds done, Caught in the iron wlieels of FateTo hand the curse from sire to son. A fated race ! And who are these With viper locks and scorpion rods,Dim shades of ruin and disease, Who float around his household gods ? Alas, for wife and children small: Blood comes, as from the rosebush bloom; The very dogs about his hall Are conscious of their masters doom. Or see the fleet victorious steed In Pindars whirlwind sweep along,To whom a more than mortal meed Remains, the bards eternal song. What are the statues Phidias cast, But dust between the palms of Fate ?A thousand ^vinters cannot blast Their leaf; if Pindar celebrate. Great Hiero, Lord of Syracuse, Or Theron, chief of Acragas,These despots wisely may refuse Record in unending brass. For Pindar sang the sinewy frame. The nimble athletes supple grip;He gave the gallant horse to fame. Who passed the goal without a whip, The coursers of the island k

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