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People of Sparta

Hyacinths u steel, barbarism intensity and poetic rivalling
Athen's itself. Athens center of Greek world. Athens suave, civilized,
finished -- and stretismus and poets -- the
greatest of the then scholars is said to have remembered at his
death and cried aloud in joy that he had contributed to the
glory of Athens (not the priceless treasure of his drama) but the
feet -- as a youth, he had met in the poor way -- u the P
Persians who would not forget him. Athens -- set -- in a ring of
amathest -- Athens where, like the strange world, we have scientists
who tell us if another sun -- when dawn follows night -- where at noon
the rocks on Hyreuethes cast violet shades, where in arising the whole
is our Flemr, the jagged peaks of the mountains not really in
colour but in many shapes obvious at night cut in the rock and
crevace a wreath of Flemr. --

A suavity - a fragrance of Athens -- a moderation.--

Laconia -- Lacedaemonia!

----------savage customs and superstitions -- the boys sacrificing
under the fragrance of Athens, outside the city of Apollo now
a days to the God of War. --as no other Greeks -- and as no other
Greeks turned themselves into young animals to fight with fist
and teeth -- is inflicting and receiving ungainly savage injuries --
yet not far from this hovel ---------- circled with its

--u ditch is a temple of the Masses because the Lacedaemonians
do not go out to battle at the sound of the trumpet but it is
the music of the flute and lyre and vary."

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Through contradictions -- apeople subtle, sensitive
and yet must grovel savagely -- iron --brass -- new proces
of wedding and a statue --------finding just recognition -
intense justice, dignity, a name among the few law-makers of the
world, Sparta, the law-making, the law-inventing - law-abiding --
the dances of the young women before the chaste and martial
Artemis -- and the training of young men -- ----------
of eyes, searing of flesh in the name of holiest Apollo.

Perhaps (as to-day psychologists would tell us) the
suppression that this strict virtue and great beauty needed by
analogy a violent outburst. Cleonences -- is characteristic
of the sp -------- of his people -- daring in the world of
the super-thermal as in his -- N'alax exploits -- subtle in intellect --
giant in courage --tempered with the Delphic oracle -- bribed the
frieters -- "died in a fit of madness."

It was in the reign of Xerxes that he led his army into
Greece.

For one moment -- for one second -- the great -- daemon
whom we call the Earth -- was in jeopardy among the other daemons
and spirits of the universe. Beyond our earth-daemon was a greater --
of questioning -- shall this world be a creature of senuous
weak strength, feminism, changeably, utterly in the --u of the
sendes -- a creation of the sun, it is true, better an eastern
sun --myrrh -- singled with spices -- never beautiful with the
half male ringlet and braceleted beauty -- with hair cut below
shoulders and back ringlets, odorous and golden crown set with
image of the eastern sun -- or shall the west prevail? --

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Athens standing mid-way given to the intellectual subtlety
and intellectual vagaries, with breadth -- with union to learn --
Athens reading toward Asia with its chain of -- islands --
Athens city of poet and homey poets from its further islands and
daring colonizer of the Asian Coast -- Athens a city set
forever on a hill -- valiant, undaunted, personal in every ditch

owl
on the heart of every citizen as the
and helmet on the coinage of the city -- Athens, a
light the Romans with helmet -- or the male with embroidered
garment, and purple sleeve?

Athens, it is true is the duel to all our strivings -
the islands and the beauty and the moderation and muses, raining
violets! - But beyond Athens livre the tears we can not shed
in hearing subtle music or finished - u poem beyond the musieans-
consciousness, beyond the intellect, the terra and the unexpressed
the fear that poems of men - incohate - undefinable, - of
the beauty unexpressed in dying or to be worshipped, dead, or
beauty beyond the ecstasy or wish that valorous song the spirit
of Hyacinthia - (the Socrates festival) beyond Athens, -
supreme upon the Parthenon, is the Athens, brass and iron
and red rivers -another - sacrificing even the mind - lowly
citadel, for a reign of M -d terror and in exploited beauty -

Leonistas is a citizen of Sparta with 300 men of Lacedaemonia
went the entire length.

It is significant -now-we subsiding, a poet of coo
appreciated - with Athens should his crystallized of the

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spirit of Sparta --- this heroic epitaph to Laconia had for
poets

Persian is a mountain pass below Thessaly.

Beyond reason, beyond the expression of any poem
or music was this action of greater than a -------- could ever be --
This god and his leader slain!'

"O, passer by, tell the Lacedaemonians that -- we are here
obeying their orders." Its spirit was "essentially the spirit
of action but action technically perfect -- the war-dance, the dance
of maidens -- the marching to battle -- the meeting and the slaying
of the enemy even the mode and manner of death were self-conscious,
dramatic. -- perfected actions, technical actions -- a life lived
as a poem is written -- or death met as the hero is y the Athens
Drama, meets at, with stately posture, with invariable grace, with
inevitable presence.

For write a poem to come as Hermeés Hermes or Diadem
requires a life and times of absolute service and as many precious
lives dedicated in the service (same) -- Calamous, Scopas not
only open and the ardour of the brains and ---------- in the perfection
of the technique that others had dread attained, achieved, invented
manner, method, manner of which they were no mean inheritors.

The god had inherited ---------- a technique of heroism --
they achieved the perfection never, never to be yet attained, never
to be surpassed at Themopolae.

But the spirit of Greece, though the parts of it so singularly
differ -- is over -- Thessaly -- Thermopolae -- Thebes -- Athens --

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Argos.--Sparta -- names we love and reminisce . Yet --------in
our hands --------colonized peoples -------- priceless jewels ---
making new patterns -- adding to our chain new names --new jewels --
Thessaly -- wild-woods --beasts -- ------- branch of tree and branch
seems -------------- --Thermopolae --the --------. Thebes --
rocks and walls -- a black Phoenician (jade) -- Athens, obviously
the flawless capital, reflecting all things and returning dreams
and visions --Argos -- some curious moon -stone -- Sparta -- all larger
ruby as yet not so perfect as its heart Thermopolae -- and on from
Sparta, we have name on name of tiny city fringing (?) the sea --
these names seem to me like the sound of tiny pearls charming, perhaps
in the greater readings of history ----------but with little flecks and
flaws full of colour and charm -- a hand full of seed-pearls
made to be strung about the throat of a small child with fairy-tales
for history.

Neonis Croceae with its shoues "libse nibre - shoues," which
add to the "beauty of fish ponds and or ---------- the waters."
There are the 18 cities along the irregular points of the sea-coast --
" all that remain of what were once 24 cities of the Eleulanques."
"Ionone -- find or "gtove," "as in another special little
stretch of coast where the " sea-shore had pebbles beautiful in
shape and of all kinds of colours." In one town Atlanta paused
thirsty from hunting -- in another is a mysterious little patch
of fruitful pond called "Dionysus garden" --- Thernis ----------
in one of these small cities where once the passes by-passed and
beheld as in a mirror a vision to gladdeh his heart of ships