Selections From Byron: the Prisoner of Chillon, Mazeppa, And Other Poems: Ed., With Introduction And Notes
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2 Gaul or Muscovite : Frenchman or Russian. 3 Helots : a class of serfs among the ancient Spartans. They were owned by :he state, were cruelly treated, and sometimes massacred. Now, says Byron, n the present degraded state of Greece the shades of the Helots can triumph aver the descendants of their oppressors. 4 Hymettus : the ancient name of a mountain southeast of Athens, celebrated for its honey. 5 Mendeli : the modern name of Pentelicus, a mountain near Athens famous for its marble. 44 SELE...CTIONS FROM BYRON LXXXVIII Where'er we tread 't is haunted, holy ground ; No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of Wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon ; Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crushed thy temples gone : Age shakes Athena's tower, 1 but spares gray Marathon. 5 THE EVE BEFORE WATERLOO (From Canto III) On the night of June 15, 18 15, traditionally the "eve before Waterloo," the Duchess of Richmond gave a ball in Brussels, near which the English army was encamped.
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