<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396272" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Famous Greek War Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sons of the Greeks, arise!<br>The glorious hour's gone forth,<br>And, worthy of such ties,<br>Display who gave us birth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CHORUS.<br>Sons of Greeks! let us go<br>In arms against the foe,<br>Till their hated blood shall flow<br>In a river past our feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then manfully despising<br>The Turkish tyrant's yoke,<br>Let your country see you rising,<br>And all her chains are broke.<br>Brave shades of chiefs and sages,<br>Behold the coming strife!<br>Hellenes of past ages,<br>Oh, start again to life!<br>At the sound of my trumpet, breaking<br>Your sleep, oh, loin with me!<br>And the seven-hill'd city seeking,<br>Fight, conquer, till we're free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sons of Greeks, &c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sparta, Sparta, why in slumbers<br>Lethargic dolt thou lie?<br>Awake, and join thy numbers<br>With Athens, old ally!<br>Leonidas recalling,<br>That chief of ancient song,<br>Who saved ye once from falling,<br>The terrible! the strong!<br>Who made that bold diversion<br>In old Thermopylæ<br>And warring with the Persian<br>To keep his country free;<br>With his three hundred waging<br>The battle, long he stood,<br>And like a lion raging,<br>Expired in seas of blood.<br>Sons of Greeks, &c.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />song, translated by Byron - <i><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/" target=_blank></a></i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396272" data-title="The Famous Greek War Song" data-description="Sons of the Greeks, arise! The glorious hour's gone forth, And, worthy of such ties, Display who gave us birth. CHORUS. Sons of Greeks! let us go In arms against the foe, Till their hated blood shall flow In a river past our feet. Then manfully ..."></div> </div> </div>

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