Ήρθαν τα Κρητικά παιδιά ⬥ The word’s gone round: the lads from Crete, the lads who hail from Crete, those brave and comely Cretan lads, have now cast anchor here. The comely and attractive ones and those who are betrothed, they’ve fitted out of sailing ship to sail the open [...]
Πήραν την Πόλη, πήρανε ⬥ They took the City, they took Salonika and they took Agia Sophia along with it. And they took Agia Sophia, the Great Monastery with four hundred semantra, with sixty two bells and a priest for every bell, and a deacon for every priest. And there’s [...]
Why, it was Easter Day, good George, t’was Easter, the day of happy tidings, my good George, a day of happy tidings, dear Doúkina. All feasted then, and all caroused, and that day all made merry, and George, he idly hung about outside his own front door. Now you see [...]
