You really can't imagine how I love the ancient Greeks. <br />I love the dancing language where their mobile spirit speaks. <br />I love the songs of Homer, flowing on like streams of light, <br />With a touch of human kindness in the splendid shock of fight. <br /> <br />I love the Alexandrians whose inimitable grace <br />Filled the world with piping shepherds, though a far from piping place. <br />But my chief delight, like Arnold's, is the glory of the nine, Passion, laughter, deathless beauty, on the Attic stage divine.<br /><br />Gamaliel Bradford<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/greeks/
