Greek Blues

Beautiful and strange Motherland

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Odysseas Elytis-Dimitris Lagios

 

I've never seen such a beautiful and strange homeland

like the one that fate has given me.

 

Throws the net to catch fish and catches birds.

Launches a boat on land, builds a garden in the water.

Weeps, kisses the ground, migrates,

ends up in some crossroads all alone... matures.

 

I've never seen such a beautiful and strange homeland

like the one that fate has given me.

 

Reaches to grab a stone, decides not to,

carves it... produces miracles.

Takes a little boat and reaches oceans.

Yearns for uprisings, seeks tyrants.

 

I've never seen such a beautiful and strange homeland

like the one that fate has given me."

 

Done