Let me go see with mine own eyes
how my beloved spends his time.
Might he have found some other love
and left me all alone?
Who was it told you that, my little sapling?
Who said I love you not, my little hatchling?
Was it the sun afar? It shall not rise again.
And so the morning star shall never come.
Lyrics from a traditional Greek folk song
of the Peloponnese
Ας πα’ να δουν τα μάτια μου
πώς τα περνά η αγάπη μου.
Μην’ ηύρ’ αλλού κι αγάπησε
και μένα μ’ απαράτησε;
Ποιος σ’ το ’πε, δεντρουλάκι μου,
δε σ’ αγαπώ, πουλί, πουλάκι μου;
Κι αν σ’ το ’πε ο ήλιος να μη βγει,
τ’ αστρί να μην ξημερωθεί.
Translated for (and taken from) the script for a pilot episode of the tee-vee series Antigone’s Son, written by Adam Adamopoulos and Spiros Krimbalis.
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(this transpolium lives alone)
