...— or, as Lord Byron has amplified this thought ' in one of his most splendid passages : — " Vet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettus yield« ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress...

...classical associations, and the ruins of ancient art and splendor scattered over it. ** Yet are tby skies as blue, thy crags as wild, Sweet are thy groves,...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honeyed wealth Hymettusf yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...

...strikingly exhibited by two passages. The inspired pilgrim writes : — "Yet are thy skies as bine, thy crags as wild. Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fielda ; Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled. And «till hi-ч honeyed wealth H 3'tnettus yields....

...laid dry, this one feature of the country has remained unaltered : — " And still his honey'd store Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee his fragrant...builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain-air." The honey here collected used to be reserved for the especial eating of the archbishop of the district,...

...is laid dry, this one feature of the country has remained unaltered : " And still his honey'd store Hymettus yields, There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds, The free-born wanderer of thy mountain air." The honey here collected used to be reserved for the special eating of the archbishop...

...strangers only not regardless pass, Г iogering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh "Alts.1 LXXXTII. iis most unearthly mood, Whrn each conception was a heavenly guest smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee hi« fragrant fortress build*,...

...regardless pass, Lingering like me, perchance, to gaze, and sigh " Alas!" Yet are thy skies as blne, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettns yields; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress bnilds,...

...suggested the beautiful eighty-seventh stanza in Canto II. of Childe Harold :— " Yet are thy sides as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves and verdant are thy fields, Thine olives ripe as when Minerva smiled, And all his honied wealth Hymettus yields; There the blithe bee...

...as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, {x u u wTfUT snmmer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare ; Alt, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still...

..."Alas I" * The allusion is to the temple of Athena on bumurn, called "Cape Colonna" by the Italians. Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet...verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his honied wealth Hymettus yields ; There the blithe bee his fragrant fortress builds,...