“The Beauty which old Greece or Rome
Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.”
"To Helen", st. 1-2 (1831).
Context: p>Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.</p
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Context: God of grace and God of glory,
On Thy people pour Thy power.
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Bring her bud to glorious flower.
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For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.
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And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
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St. 1
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