Pashley, Robert: Travels in Crete (Band 2) (Cambridge und London, 1837)

CEETAN SONG

9 On every holy festival,
On Sunday, Easter-day,
Listen to what I now will tell,
Khadji Mikhdli's fray.

When the Grabiisians did write

Of their affairs the sum,
And it to the Morea sent

That the Khadji might come;

They also wrote to the Khadji,

That ancient Moreite,
That he should gather steeds of war,

And go down into Crete.

While at Anapli he collects

Horsemen full sixty-five,
That with them he to Crete may go

And with the Egyptians strive.

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