It’s Eastertime
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Maria’ S Gone to Pick Some Lilac
Maria’s gone to pick some lilac, a nightingale is singing,
she goes to gather lilac blossom in vineyards and in paddocks.
A...
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One Easter Day, One Sunday
The Sinner
One Easter Day, one Sunday,
on a holy day, my little bird,
a mother was adorning her son
one Saturday from dawn to dusk,
...
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Again They Entered in the Dance
Again they entered in the dance, four eyes as dark as olives,
four eyes that weave like shuttle through the hearts they brea...
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All Attend at Church
Easter Dance
All attend –for sake of Christ– all attend at church
to exclaim that ‘Christ is Risen!’ and to hear the Word.
As for me, th...
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Arta’s Bridge
Down on the shore where land meets sea,
where the world ends,
they set to building a bridge,
but the bridge would not stan...
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Easter Couplets
Easter Dance
Easter has come round again, throw out the koukouràs1
and put a red egg laid this year upon the ikon stand2.
Glad returns o...
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For a Whole Seven Weeks...
For a whole seven weeks, my love, I did not speak to you;
because it was the time of Lent, I feared I’d make you sin.
I can...
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I Will Climb a Mountain High
With golden adz and silver saw
I climb a mountain high,
up where the best trees grow.
To cut boughs of laurel and apple an...
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It Is May Month
Necrolatric Dance of Spring
It is May month, the spring is here and soon it will be summer,
but now the deer are pleasuring and finding spring content.
...
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My Son, Why Dont You Go and Wash?
Necrolatric Dance of Easter
– My son, why don’t you go and wash, why don’t you change your clothing?
Today, my child, is Easter Day, you’ll go and take ...
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The Son of the Armenian
The son of the Armenian boasted, my beautiful blue eyes,
to a pasha, his master, sing my lovely nightingale.
– My master, I...
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The Song of Saint George
A monster plagues our land curled up in a deep well.
We feed it poor townsfolk every morn and every night,
but when a day g...
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Today, My Dark-Eyed Beauty
Easter Dance
Today, my dark-eyed beauty, today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!’
today it’s ‘Christ is Risen!, he’s taken up to heaven.
Today, my ...
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Tricked by the Birds
Tricked I was, tricked by the birds,
tricked by the nightingales of spring.
They tricked me and told me I would never die.
...