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...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....

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...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...

...Colonna's cliff, and gleams along the wave ; Save o'er some warrior's half-forgotten grave, Where the gray stones and unmolested grass Ages, but not oblivion,...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,...

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...fraught with such recollections thrilled like the sound of a trumpet through the heart of Europe ? " 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,...

...memory of departed friends, or the scenes of happy childhood— 14 sweet, but mournful, to the eoul." "Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy grove?, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still hifl honied...