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The Open Window to the Aegean
The heavy door opened and the island appears,
within the azure sea, in an endless serenity,
and the golden sunset fading out there in distant lands,
brings a flame to the fire and a joy to me.
Konstantinos Chatzopoulos, Songs of Desolation (1902) -
Poem "The Facing", Published in The Poems, Georgios Fexis Publishing House.
