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SO ENDS CHIDE HAROLD HIS LAST PILGRIMAGE! Upon the shores of Greece he stood, and cried 'LIBERTY! and those shores, from age to age Renown'd, and Sparta's woods and rocks, replied 'Liberty! But a Spectre, at his side, Stood mocking; and its dart, uplifting high, Smote him: he sank to earth in life's fair pride: SPARTA! thy rocks then heard another cry, And old Ilissus sigh'd 'Die, generous exile, die!
27 16 tenait bon: 'stood its ground firmly', adverbial use of the adjective cf.sentir bon and the corresponding English 'to smell good'. 27 27 fit: cf. note to 21 22. 28 8 il lui prit la main: 'he took his hand', cf. note to 12 25. 28 12 Bompard: the personages of "Tartarin de Tarascon" appear in other novels of Daudet. For Bompard see particularly "Numa Roumestan."
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