Quotes from work

Hellas

“The world's great age begins anew,
The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
Her winter weeds outworn;
Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam,
Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.”

“The moon of Mahomet
Arose, and it shall set;
While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon,
The cross leads generations on.”

“We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.”

“But Greece and her foundations are
Built below the tide of war,
Based on the crystalline sea
Of thought and its eternity;
Her citizens, imperial spirits,
Rule the present from the past,
On all this world of men inherits
Their seal is set.”

“Kings are like stars — they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.”

“Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!”

“The world is weary of the past,
Oh, might it die or rest at last!”