Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX. 1876–79. | | | | Greece: Athens | | Modern Athens | | Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton (1809–1885) |
| | | IF Fate, though jealous of the second birth | |
| Of names in history raised to high degree, | |
| Permits that Athens yet once more shall be, | |
| Let her be placed as suits the thought and worth | |
| Of those who, during long oppression’s dearth, | 5 |
| Went out from Hydra and Ipsara free, | |
| Making their homestead of the chainless sea, | |
| And hardly touching their enslavéd earth. | |
| So on the shore, in sight of Salamis, | |
| On the Piræan and Phalerian bays, | 10 |
| With no harsh contrast of what was and is, | |
| Let Athens rise; while in the distance stands, | |
| Like something hardly raised by human hands, | |
| The awful skeleton of ancient days! | | | | |
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