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1862–1932

ATHENIAN

Gilbert Parker

Your voice I knew, its cadences and thrill; It stilled the tumult and the overthrow When Athens trembled to the people's will; I knew it —‘ twas a thousand years ago.

I see the fountains, and the gardens where You sang the fury from the Satrap's brow; I feel the quiver in the raptured air, I heard it in the Athenian grove — I hear you now.

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