Pashley, Robert: Travels in Crete (Band 1) (Cambridge und London, 1837)

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love-songs.

[chap.

Alas ! I am of sense bereft

For love of a Greek maid,
Whom once, and once alone, I saw,

At her lattice as she staid21.

Within my heart a fire doth blaze,

There too a tree doth grow,
Which, from the flame's destructive force,

Wastes, and will soon lie low22.

The connexion of the modern Cretan's religion with
pictorial representations of the whole celestial hierarchy,
will sufficiently account for such stanzas as the fol-
lowing :

Within a holy church's walls

Thy picture will I set,
Where service duly is performed,

That none may thee forget23.

In order fully to enter into the force of this lover's
language, we must remember that, throughout Greece,
the Panaghia is the chief object of the Christian peasant's

''Av ! (cai Kov^ovXadtiKo.

hid /Uia? 'PwjUai'fi? yciTipi^
Trjv etoa jxovov jx'ia (popd

dird to irapaOupi.

' ¥Lap(3ovvicrTia e'^w (TTrjv xaphid
k eva hevhpd crTrj fxecrrj
k aVo Trjv Xavpa Trjv 7roX\rjv
[xapaiveTCti vd mecrrj.

Ets fx'iav fxeyaXrjv exKXrjcrta
dirov vd XeiTovp^ciTai

Be vd ere ypd\lsoo, dydirr] fxov
vd fxrj ere XrjcrfXOvuTai.