Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
E. Robert Bulwer, Lord Lytton (Owen Meredith) (18311891)Athens (from After Paradise)
(1865)
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Quench’d fire-pit of the quick explosive Past,
Thought’s highest crater—all its fervours cold,
Ashes and dust at last!
To gild, not Greece, but other lands, is given:
Not where the splendour sank, the after-glow
Of sunset stays in heaven.
Doth, as of old, Hyperion’s glory hail,
And from Hymettus, in the moonlight, hark
The exuberant nightingale!