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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340168" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Beacon Fires</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A GLEAM -- a gleam -- from Ida's height, <br>By the Fire-god sent, it came; <br>From watch to watch it leapt, that light, <br>As a rider rode the flame! <br>It shot through the startled sky, <br>And the torch of that blazing glory <br>Old Lemnos caught on high, <br>On its holy promontory, <br>And sent it on, the jocund sign, <br>To Athos, Mount of Jove divine. <br>Wildly the while, it rose from the isle, <br>So that the might of the journeying Light <br>Skimmed over the back of the gleaming brine! <br>Farther and faster speeds it on, <br>Till the watch that keeps Macistus steep <br>See it burst like a blazing Sun! <br>Doth Macistus sleep <br>On his tower-clad steep? <br>No! rapid and red doth the wild fire sweep; <br>It flashes afar on the wayward stream <br>Of the wild Euripus, the rushing beam! <br>It rouses the light on Messapion's height, <br>And they feed its breath with the withered heath. <br>But it may not stay! <br>And away -- away -- <br>It bounds in its freshening might. <br> <br>Silent and soon, <br>Like a broadened moon, <br>It passes in sheen, Asopus green, <br>And bursts on Cithaeron gray! <br>The warder wakes to the Signal-rays, <br>And it swoops from the hill with a broader blaze. <br>On, on the fiery Glory rode; <br>Thy lonely lake, Gorgopis, glowed! <br>To Megara's Mount it came; <br>They feed it again <br>And it streams amain-- <br>A giant beard of Flame! <br>The headland cliffs that darkly down <br>O'er the Saronic waters frown, <br>Are passed with the Swift One's lurid stride, <br>And the huge rock glares on the glaring tide. <br>With mightier march and fiercer power <br>It gained Arachne's neighboring tower; <br>Thence on our Argive roof its rest it won, <br>Of Ida's fire the long-descended Son! <br>Bright Harbinger of glory and of joy! <br>So first and last with equal honor crowned, <br>In solemn feasts the race-torch circles round. -- <br>And these my heralds! -- this my SIGN OF PEACE; <br>Lo! while we breathe, the victor lords of Greece <br>Stalk, in stern tumult, through the halls of Troy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a><div class=q>
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By the Fire-god sent, it came; 
From watch to watch it leapt, that light, 
As a rider rode the flame! 
It shot through the startled sky, 
And the torch of that blazing glory 
Old Lemnos caught on high, 
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