Petros Pandis / Πέτρος Πανδής

I will stay with you, also, in the boat
after the horrific shipwreck and the loss
the ship is sinking now far away
where have the other boats gone, who got away
we will find sometime dry land
a desert island
there we will put up our houses
all around the big square
and in the middle a church
we will hang inside it the photograph
of our captain who was lost high, high up
a little lower, the second; lower, the third
we will change our wives and have lots of children
and afterward we will caulk a big, new ship
brand new and we will put it in the water
we will have grown old but they will recognize us
only our children will not look like us

(translation: Eva Johanos)

You fell victim, brothers, you did
In an unequal Battle and Struggle
Life, liberty and the honor of the People
Seeking, you found graves

Often in damp, dark prisons
Bitter days you passed
And with one nod from the executioner straight
to the scaffold and the noose they brought you …

They feast, the tyrants, and in drinking
Oblivion they seek to find
However, their days have now been numbered
And an awful end awaits them

It grows massive and enraged now, the giant of the People
And breaks links and chains
Eternal is the memory of you, brothers
In the honorable Struggle in which you fell…

(translation: Eva Johanos)