text:  Thus although not in all the freshness of its living colours yet in all its grandeur doth GREECE actually present itself to the mind's eye--and may the impression never be obliterated! In the eve of bidding it farewell for ever as the hope of visiting this delightful country constituted the earliest and warmest wish of his youth the author found it to be some alleviation of his regret excited by a consciousness of never returning that he could thus summon to his recollection the scenes over which he had passed