Andreas Kalvos, Three verses from Ode To Chios (1824). ᾨδὴ Ἕκτη. Εἰς Χίον

ᾨδὴ Ἕκτη. Εἰς Χίον

στροφὴ α´.

Ὡς ὅτε ἀπὸ τὸ στόμα
κρέμεται τῶν θνητῶν
αὐλὸς λελυπημένος
καὶ ἡ φωνή του μὲ᾿ κόπον
τρέμουσα ἐκβαίνει·


β´.

Ὡς μέσα εἰς τὰ πολύδενδρα
δάση τὸ βράδυ εἰσπνέει
τὸ τεθλιμμένον φύσημα
Μεσημβρινὸν καὶ φαίνεται
θρῆνος ἀνθρώπων·


γ´.

Εἰς τὸν ἠρημωμένον
αἰγιαλὸν τῆς νήσου
οὕτω φέρνουν τὰ κύματα
καὶ τὸ παράπονόν τους
ᾑ Ὠκεανῖδαι. 

As when the flute's

plaintive sound

leaves the mouth of mortals

and the trembling voice

hardly comes out,

or in the evening

through thick woods,

the doleful wind

floats along

like a human dirge,

on the deserted coast 

of the island,

so the ocean-daughters

heave up waves 

and their laments.

From the translation by George Dandoulakis, Andreas Kalvos, Odes, Shoestring Press, 1998

ISBN: 1 899549 L18


On The Massacre at Chios (Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Massacre_at_Chios


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