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" Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! "
Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron]. - Page 139
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823
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Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V.

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? " 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though Hnk'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. " Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

England - 1821 - 778 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? " 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. " Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 9-10

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something , in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must u>e but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from...
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The Babbler; or, Weekly literary and scientific intelligencer, Volume 1

1822 - 440 pages
...into hands like mine ? 'Tis something:, in the dearth of fame, Though liuk'd among: a fettered laoe, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet hero? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. Must w» but weep o'er days more blest? Must me but...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though link d among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as...here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's...face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must vie but blush ?—Our fathers...
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The Oxford Entertaining Miscellany, Or, Weekly Magazine ..., Volume 1

1824 - 312 pages
...'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Tho' link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriots shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face ; For what...poet here ! For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. The poetry of the three concluding stanzas is not less exquisite nor less animated. Trust not for freedom...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 3

1824 - 452 pages
...long divine. Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Thongh liuk'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suifuse my face : For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush—for Greece a tear. The poetry...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suifuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must ice...
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