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On the Fall of Constantinople (Constantine Cavafy)

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TAKEN I’ve recently been reading folk songs, about the exploits of the klephts and wars, our own, engaging Greek affairs. ‘They’ve taken the City, taken it; they’ve taken Saloniki’. And the Voice that both of them were hymning there. ‘to the left, the emperor, the patriarch to the right’, was heard telling them to stop: ‘Put down your papers, priests, and close the Gospel books’ they’ve taken the City, taken it; they’ve taken Saloniki. But of the others, the one that touched me most is the Trapezuntine air, with its strange language, and the sorrow of those far-off Greeks who perhaps all believed that we’d yet be saved. But, alas, a fateful bird ‘comes from the city’ with a paper under its wing. Landing neither in the vineyard nor the orchard it went and alighted at ...

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