Song heroic and mourning for the lost second Lieutenant of the Albanian campaign
(Odysseus Elytis)
Now the dream beat faster on the blood
The world’s rightest moment rings out:
FREEDOM,
Greeks show the way in the darkness:
FREEDOM
For you the sun will weep with joy
Rainbow-struck shores fall into the waters
Ships with open sails glide through the meadows
The most innocent girls
Run naked before men’s eyes
And modesty cries out from behind the hedge:
FREEDOM
Boys! There is no other earth more beautiful…
The world’s rightest moment rings out
With morning step on growing grass
He keeps on ascending;
Now, desires once lost in the solitude
Of sin gleam around him;
Neighbors of his heart desires flame up;
Birds greet him, he feels them as brothers
Men calls him, he feels them as comrades…
“Birds my good birds, life begins here”
Hoarfrost of heavenly beauty shines in his hair
Crystal bells in the distance…
Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow:
The Easter of God!
Recites the student : George Palaskas