Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

   Happier in this than mightiest bards have been,
   Whose fate to distant homes confined their lot,
   Shall I unmoved behold the hallowed scene,
   Which others rave of, though they know it not? 
   Though here no more Apollo haunts his grot,
   And thou, the Muses’ seat, art now their grave,
   Some gentle spirit still pervades the spot,
   Sighs in the gale, keeps silence in the cave,
And glides with glassy foot o’er yon melodious wave.