Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Thermopylæ | | Thermopylæ | | Simonides (c. 556–468 B.C.) |
| | Translated by M. P. Fitz-Gerald
WHO at Thermopylæ stood side by side, | |
| And fought together and together died, | |
| Under earth-barrows now are laid in rest, | |
| Their chance thrice-glorious, and their fate thrice-blest: | |
| No tears for them, but memory’s loving gaze; | 5 |
| For them no pity, but proud hymns of praise. | |
| Time shall not sweep this monument away,— | |
| Time the destroyer; no, nor dank decay. | |
| This not alone heroic ashes holds; | |
| Greece’s own glory this earth-shrine enfolds,— | 10 |
| Leonidas, the Spartan king; a name | |
| Of boundless honor and eternal fame. | | | | |
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