CHORUS.

From the depth of the springs of my spirit a fountain is poured
of thanksgiving,
My country, my mother, for thee,
That thy dead for their death shall have life in thy sight and
a name everliving
At heart of thy people to be.
In the darkness of change on the waters of time they shall turn
from afar
To the beam of this dawn for a beacon, the light of these pyres
for a star.
They shall see thee who love and take comfort, who hate thee
shall see and take warning,
Our mother that makest us free;
And the sons of thine earth shall have help of the waves that
made war on their morning,
And friendship and fame of the sea. 1760

NOTES.

v. 497-503. Cf. Eurip. Fr. _Erechtheus_, 46-49.

v. 522-530. Id. 32-40.

v. 778. AEsch. _Supp._ 524-6.

v. 983. Soph. Fr. (_Oreithyia_) 655.

[Greek: hyper te ponton pant' ep' etchata chthonos
nyktos te pegas ouranou t' anaptychas,
phoibou palaion kepon.]

v. 1163. AEsch. Fr. (_Danaides_) 38.

[Greek: ombros d' ap' eunaentos ouranou peson
ekyse gaian.]

v. 1168. Id.

[Greek: dendrotis hora d' ek notizontos gamou
teleios esti.]

v. 1749. '_God born of God._' Soph. _Ant._ 834. [Greek: theos toi kai
theogennes.]

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