Felicia Hemans,
Poetry Taken from The Edinburgh Magazine And Literary Miscellany June 1822…
(1822)
“ THE SPARTAN'S MARCH. "It was at once a delightful and terrible sight," says Plutarch, "to see them (the Spartans) marching on to the tunes of their flutes, without ever troubling their order, or confounding their ranks; their music leading them into danger with a deliberate hope and assurance, as if some Divinity had sensibly assisted them. ”
