glen-built

Updated: June 26, 2025

It stood and sun and moonshine rained their light On the pure columns of its glen-built hall. Backward and forward rolled the waves of fight Round Troy; but while this stood, Troy could not fall. So in its lovely moonlight lives the soul. Mountains surround it and sweet virgin air; Cold plashing, past it, crystal waters roll: We visit it by moments, ah, too rare!

Joslyn Gray - Elsie Marley, Honey

We see the palladium of the American ideal goddess of the just eye, the unpolluted heart, the equal hand standing as the image of Athene stood above the upper streams of Simois: "It stood, and sun and moonshine rained their light On the pure columns of its glen-built hall. Backward and forward rolled the waves of fight Round Troy but while this stood Troy could not fall."

Henry Van Dyke - The Americanism of Washington