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King on his throne

“They gave me the Greek language,
the poor house on Homer’s shores.
My only care my language on Homer’s shores.
…
The Sun the ruler of light, king and sovereign,
held our fate high in his hands.”

Odysseas Elytis, The Axion Esti (1959).

Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard, The Axion Esti,

University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.