"The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung," etc.
68. _Ilissus_. This river, rising on the northern slope of Hymettus,
flows through the east side of Athens.
69. _Mæander's amber waves_. Cf. Milton, _P. L._ iii. 359: "Rolls
o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream;" _P. R._ iii. 288: "There Susa
by Choaspes, amber stream." See also Virgil, _Geo._ iii. 520: "Purior
electro campum petit amnis." Callimachus (_Cer._ 29) has [Greek:
alektrinon hudôr].