While Greece is still a Turkish slave?
Shall Hellas, Mother of the West,
In servitude ignoble rest?
Oh, shame! that it should come to this,
When by your side hang idle swords;
Arise, ye sons of Salamis,
Whose fathers quelled the Persian hordes,
And drive the Moslem to the sea,
Till Hellas and her sons be free.”
When the song was finished, Caliphronas turned away silently, and Carriston, who was seated near, saw to his astonishment that the eyes of the emotional Greek were suffused with tears.