Ένα το χελιδόνι [Ena to helidoni] [English translation]

Just a single swallow and spring is all costly too

to get the sun back here it needs much work ado

Needed are thousands dead ones working at the wheels

needed are yet the living shedding their blood with zeal

Oh my Master Builder God, in amongst mountains You built me

oh my Master Builder God, round with all seas You girded me!

Taken away by sages the body of May now slain

and in a sepulchre out in open seas it’s lain

in an abysmal well it’s kept enclosed all through

all of the darkness scented, all of the abyss too

Oh my Master Builder God, in amongst lilacs there You are

oh my Master Builder God, Your resurrection smells afar!