. The Burton Holmes lectures;. AN ATHENIAN VISTA But if at sunset the Acropolis en-chants us, moonlight amid the ruins brings anew inspiration and makes of those who linger there nmtepoets who feel within themselves a thousand cantos andstrive vainly to give forth in voices the thoughts that crowdupon them. But since l^yron sang, no poet has found voiceto utter all that these immortal marbles whisper to are reduced, then, to mute wonder and admiration forthe magnificent creations of those old Greeks, which after I 12 THE OLYMPIAN GAMES more than two thousand years of the worlds progress
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. AN ATHENIAN VISTA But if at sunset the Acropolis en-chants us, moonlight amid the ruins brings anew inspiration and makes of those who linger there nmtepoets who feel within themselves a thousand cantos andstrive vainly to give forth in voices the thoughts that crowdupon them. But since l^yron sang, no poet has found voiceto utter all that these immortal marbles whisper to are reduced, then, to mute wonder and admiration forthe magnificent creations of those old Greeks, which after I 12 THE OLYMPIAN GAMES more than two thousand years of the worlds progress arestill the nearest to perfection. The Greeks of classic times soared higher than thegreatest of our moderns in philosophic thought, in poetry,in the drama, in architecture, and in art. All that is bestin us has been bequeathed to us by them. Let us, then,ere we bid farewell to Athens, freely and gratefully acknowl-edge our infinite indebtedness to Greece !.
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