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Sleep our glorious ancestors, sleep! Do not be disturbed. We, your descendants would never betray The blood you have shed to liberate Our land. The Land of: Homer and Hesiod Aeschylus and Euripides Socrates and Plato Hypocrates and Alexander For We would never let another enemy, No matter how powerful, To invade our holy motherland- The birthplace: Of Philosophy Of Democracy, Of Tragedy, and Of the Olympic Games. Sleep you, immortal heroes of freedom, sleep! Let your blessed souls roam onto the Elysian fields, and Let yourselves enjoy the company of our Forbears: Of Hercules, Of Achilles Of Odysseus, and Of Agamemnon For We stay vigilant guards instead of you Ready to safeguard the values and ideals For which you have fallen. Ready to follow your footsteps, and Ready to die for our land: Greece Which You have liberated after four hundred years of Insufferable and tyrannical occupation.* ©Demetrios Trifiatis 25 March 2021 *The Ottomans captured Constantinople (Istanbul), which was the capital of the Byzantine empire for eleven centuries, on the 29th of May 1453. Greece remained enslaved till the 25th of March 1821, when we Greeks revolted against the oppressors' tyranny and after a long war, we managed to liberate ourselves! Long live Freedom. Long Live Greece!
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