Barrows, Samuel J.: The isles and shrines of Greece (Boston, 1898)

TROY 371

Aegean has suffused the scene with the bright glow
of his imagination. And when the last stone of
Troy shall have crumbled into dust the unfading
pictures of the immortal epic will remain. With
Alpheus of Mytelene we can sing: —

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Still sad Andromache's low wail we hear;

Still see all Troy from her foundations fall:
The might of Ajax, lifeless Hector bound

And ruthless dragged beneath the city's wall —
This, through the muse of Homer, bard renowned,

Whose fame not one alone, but many shores revere.