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First Line: Still green, along our sunny shore
Last Line: We still have sword and myrtle bough!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Greece; Greeks


STILL green, along our sunny shore,
The flowering myrtle waves,
As when its fragrant boughs of yore
Were offered on the graves --
The graves, wherein our mighty men
Had rest, unviolated then.

Still green it waves! as when the hearth
Was sacred through the land;
And fearless was the banquet's mirth,
And free the minstrel's hand;
And guests, with shining myrtle crowned,
Sent the wreathed lyre and wine-cup round.

Still green, as when on holy ground
The tyrant's blood was poured;
Forget ye not what garlands bound
The young deliverer's sword!
Though earth may shroud Harmodious now,
We still have sword and myrtle bough!





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