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1837–1909

GREECE

Algernon Charles Swinburne

I am she that made thee lovely with my beauty From north to south: Mine, the fairest lips, took first the fire of duty From thine own mouth.

Mine, the fairest eyes, sought first thy laws and knew them Truths undefiled; Mine, the fairest hands, took freedom first into them, A weanling child.

By my light, now he lies sleeping, seen above him Where none sees other; By my dead that loved and living men that love him;

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