...generations after have not gotten out from under. Chapter 17 THE LORD WILL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER! The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. George Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan (1 821 ). The...

...III (1820), which became the single most important philhellenic text, particularly stanzas 3 and 7: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...

...A verse from "The Isles of Greece" in Don Juan illustrates Byron's early philhellenic perspective: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, 1 dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself...

...诗杖) · 北 京， 人民文学出饭杜· 1998 · 471 . 296 @ 胡 订 讨 杖 真 鼻 诉 九 in The mountains look on Marathon@ And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream 'd that Greece might still be free For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself...

...contractors who fed and clothed and armed the "five million men" in the army of the victorious Xerxes? "The mountains look on Marathon — and Marathon looks on the sea," and they may continue looking at each other, until the crack of doom, without telling us the cost of the...

...look on Marathon', wrote Lord Byron in 1818, as he stood gazing out across the scene of the battle, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream 'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave I could not deem myself...