The Bride of Abydos 2-03
  
CANTO THE SECOND.

III.

Oh! yet - for there my steps have been!
These feet have press'd the sacred shore,
These limbs that buoyant wave hath borne -
Minstrel! with thee to muse, to mourn,
To trace again those fields of yore,
Believing every hillock green
Contains no fabled hero's ashes,
And that around the undoubted scene
Thine own "broad Hellespont" still dashes,
Be long my lot! and cold were he
Who there could gaze denying thee!

George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron (1788-1824) ByronLong