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The isles of Greece the isles of Greece	A
Where burning Sappho loved and sung	B
Where grew the arts of war and peace	A
Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung	B
Eternal summer gilds them yet	C
But all except their sun is set	C
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The Scian and the Teian muse	D
The hero's harp the lover's lute	E
Have found the fame your shores refuse	D
Their place of birth alone is mute	E
To sounds which echo further west	F
Than your sires' 'Islands of the Blest	F
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The mountains look on Marathon	G
And Marathon looks on the sea	H
And musing there an hour alone	I
I dream'd that Greece might still be free	H
For standing on the Persians' grave	J
I could not deem myself a slave	J
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A king sate on the rocky brow	K
Which looks o'er sea born Salamis	L
And ships by thousands lay below	M
And men in nations all were his	N
He counted them at break of day	O
And when the sun set where were they	O
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And where are they and where art thou	K
My country On thy voiceless shore	P
The heroic lay is tuneless now	K
The heroic bosom beats no more	P
And must thy lyre so long divine	Q
Degenerate into hands like mine	Q
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'Tis something in the dearth of fame	R
Though link'd among a fetter'd race	S
To feel at least a patriot's shame	R
Even as I sing suffuse my face	S
For what is left the poet here	T
For Greeks a blush for Greece a tear	U
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Must we but weep o'er days more blest	F
Must we but blush Our fathers bled	V
Earth render back from out thy breast	F
A remnant of our Spartan dead	V
Of the three hundred grant but three	H
To make a new Thermopyl	M
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What silent still and silent all	M
Ah no the voices of the dead	V
Sound like a distant torrent's fall	M
And answer 'Let one living head	V
But one arise we come we come '	-
'Tis but the living who are dumb	W
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In vain in vain strike other chords	X
Fill high the cup with Samian wine	Q
Leave battles to the Turkish hordes	X
And shed the blood of Scio's vine	Q
Hark rising to the ignoble call	M
How answers each bold Bacchanal	M
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You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet	C
Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone	Y
Of two such lessons why forget	C
The nobler and the manlier one	Z
You have the letters Cadmus gave	J
Think ye he meant them for a slave	J
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Fill high the bowl with Samian wine	Q
We will not think of themes like these	L
It made Anacreon's song divine	Q
He served but served Polycrates	L
A tyrant but our masters then	A2
Were still at least our countrymen	B2
	-
The tyrant of the Chersonese	L
Was freedom's best and bravest friend	C2
That tyrant was Miltiades	L
O that the present hour would lend	C2
Another despot of the kind	D2
Such chains as his were sure to bind	D2
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Fill high the bowl with Samian wine	Q
On Suli's rock and Parga's shore	P
Exists the remnant of a line	Q
Such as the Doric mothers bore	P
And there perhaps some seed is sown	I
The Heracleidan blood might own	I
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Trust not for freedom to the Franks	L
They have a king who buys and sells	L
In native swords and native ranks	L
The only hope of courage dwells	L
But Turkish force and Latin fraud	E2
Would break your shield however broad	E2
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Fill high the bowl with Samian wine	Q
Our virgins dance beneath the shade	F2
I see their glorious black eyes shine	Q
But gazing on each glowing maid	F2
My own the burning tear drop laves	L
To think such breasts must suckle slaves	L
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Place me on Sunium's marbled steep	G2
Where nothing save the waves and I	H2
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep	G2
There swan like let me sing and die	H2
A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine	Q
Dash down yon cup of Samian wine	Q

George Gordon Lord Byron

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