And change Ilissus' banks for Thames and Avon stream.

Daughters of Zeus and bright Eurynome,
She whose blue waters pave the Aegaean plain,
Children of all surrounding sky and sea,
A larger ocean claims you, not in vain!
Ye who to Helicon from Thessalia wide
Wander'd when earth was young,
Come from Libethrion, come; our love, our joy, our pride!

Ah! since your gray Pierian ilex-groves
Felt the despoiling tread of barbarous feet,
This land, o'er all, the Delian leader loves;
Here is your favourite home, your genuine seat:--
In these green western isles renew the throne
Where Grace by Wisdom shines;
--We welcome with full hearts, and claim you for our own!

If, looking at England, one point may be singled out in that long
movement, generalized under the name of the Renaissance, as critical, it
is the introduction of the Greek and Latin literature:--which has
remained ever since conspicuously the most powerful and enlarging
element, the most effectively educational, among all blanches of human
study.

_In the vale Of fair Aosta_; See Anselm's youthful vision of the gleaners
and the palace of heaven (Green: _History_, B. II: ch. ii).

_His Great Work_; Roger Bacon's so-named _Opus Majus_: 'At once,' says
Whewell, 'the Encyclopaedia and the Novum Organum of the thirteenth