When Will the Sky Be Clear
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Song
A Maid Bidding Farewell
A maid was seeing her husband off to foreign parts
holding a candle out for him to see,
tankards of wine for him to drink.
...
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The Eagle (On a Mountain High)
On a high mountain, on a sharp, steep rock,
an eagle was standing and he was gazing,
an eagle soaked and freezing.
He year...
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The Gallant Man
Never pity a valiant man not even if he misses,
and if he misses once or twice, he's still valiant and brave.
Ηis door will...
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The Swallows of Vlachiá
The Sack of Adrianoúpolis
The swallows of Vlachiá and the birds of the West
weeping late and weeping early, weeping at noon,
weeping for ravaged Adri...
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A Sailor-Lads A-Dying
I heard the shouting and the cries, they filled the Cyprus straits.
I thought they must be slaughtering bulls or taming some...
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At Dawn
At dawn not once did I get up without sighing
arise, my sun, come, talk to me
without bending again on the pillow and cryin...
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I Saw Some Black Smoke
I saw some black smoke rise up out of the reeds;
The reeds are numberless and a monster hides in them.
Three huntsmen have ...
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Little Birds of the East
English translation is not available. French translation follows:
Oiselets du levant
et rossignols du couchant,
rassemblez...
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When the City Was Founded
When the angels the City did found
with water from the Holy Mount
and clay from Chios and tiles from Adrianoúpolis.
And wh...
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You Have Entangled Me
You have entangled me, you have,
like a bee,
I am fed up being your slave
and also your ransomer, my little one.
You have...