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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>1821 Hellenic Blues</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In Crete and in Mani<br>No cannon ever finds me…<br>-popular Greek song</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Some call the blues uniquely<br> American, from the<br> Muggy Mississippi delta to the </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Daunting nighttime streets of<br> Chicago, repetitive, <br> Progressive, peaking</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">& releasing & rife w/<br> heartfelt woe, at<br> Once springing from and revealing the Soul. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But the craggy peaks of Hellas cried a<br> similar strain, when<br> Ottoman occupants seized the </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Cities, songs of loss, <br> Lament &<br> Anguish, as old as sin & fresh & </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">teary as the original composer, &<br> equally ephemeral, a<br> song enduring tho neither </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Classical nor recorded, of proud people herded to the <br>mountains like so many<br>Sheep, never losing sight of </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Their shepherd- w/out <br>Want-<br>Hopeless but for an indefatigable </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Hope, based in<br>Faith…<br>Byron and Shelley found no Achilles reaming a musket nor<br> Alexander severing the Gordian knot, only<br> hungry, huddled masses waiting a fruitless wait on </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">great Catherine the blond for liberation, driven to <br> Fratricides between gasps on <br> Psiloritis, precursors to the mass exodus to</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Chicago not to hear the <br> Wail, but to<br> celebrate escape from it, by-</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">passing the Crossroads &<br>that bloody john hancock, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"> singers giving way to<br> Modern programs, glad to be rid of<br> Ethnic burdens w/ no time left for tears. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">*Athlete (from Greek) : to struggle against the self* </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">“Yet, behold now thy sons<br>With impetuous breath<br>Go forth to the fight<br>Seeking Freedom -<br> *eleftheria*-<br> or Death…” &</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Tho I never tramped the mountain trails on Ossa or Psiloritis, never saw Minoa, neither strode the Mani seaside, nor do i own a Cretan dagger, the spirit of '21 runs coruscant thru me as I amble the sooty, greasy Lisbon St. or sweat the muddy, muggy trails of Thorncrag's secular spiral, or<br> Scrape Jack Frost from my<br> windshield, like the</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">blood run thru the Heroes of '21 as i<br> celebrate their sacrifice &<br> choose to get over the</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=541262" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">wail rather than curse that bygone yoke of<br> dhimmitude, hailing- not<br> quite<br> <br>unique but quite<br> American- ever<br> hailing Freedom.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Cretan+Maineiac">Cretan Maineiac</a></strong></div>