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Would perhaps the dead praise You? / Alive now us will praise You. / Would perhaps the cold ones, whose blood is drought? / To us is given to taste / the blessing of the Almighty, the prayer of the natives… (From Papatsonis, In Rising Sound)

Papatsonis poems: Wisdom, Scheme, Hestia, In Rising Sound (In English and Greek side by side) 

Papatsonis extensive anthology (26 poems) in the Greek original

Cf. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome (Papatsonis uses many of these themes)

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