Nothing to Do - A Tilt at Our Best Society by Jr. Horatio Alger

Author:Jr. Horatio Alger [Alger, Horatio, Jr.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anboco
Published: 2017-01-09T23:00:00+00:00

And towards the North-West from the famed Hebrides

To the beautiful isles in the fair Grecian main.

He has wandered through climes of which even the names

Thrill the heart with emotion, or summon a tear,

When we think how completely has time swept away

The traces of all that we fain would revere.

He has stood, it may be, on the very same spot

Where Homer recited his deathless heroics,

Or paused at the portico, knowing it not,

Where Zeno addressed his disciples, the Stoics.

Perchance when he gazed from the brow of the hill

On the once famous harbor—the Attic Piræus,—

Proud trophy of valor reverse could not chill!—

His foot pressed the turf on the breast of Musæus.

He has seen the proud city whose arts and whose arms

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