...departed; and where now is the lovely isle ? Let the muse of Byron answer : -" On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more." She has passed away; " Fuit Ilium" is engraven indelibly on her time-honored barracks of rock. In lika...

...sun set, where were they? And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now @ The heroic bosom...hands like mine? Tis something in the dearth of fame, 在憐墟獨白冥思出神， 夢想希瑣尚能自由富娛， 因為屹立在波斯人墳上，...

...set where were they f 5. And where are they ? and where art thon, My country? On thy voiceless shore 1 *"Л must thy lyre, so long divine. Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd...

...THE ISLES OF GREECE 5 25 And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now The heroic bosom beats no more! And must thy lyre, so long divine, 30 Degenerate into hands like mine? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd...

...the ballad's f1fth stanza. And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now — The heroic bosom...lyre, so long divine. Degenerate into hands like mine? An act of poetic ventriloquism multiplies the pronominal references in these lines. The Romaic poet...

...set, where were they? V And where are they? And where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now@ The heroic bosom beats...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine? VI 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...