David W Solomons' Music Site - Melissanthi - We have cast anchor at midnight

Translation by Diana Maynard
WE HAVE CAST ANCHOR
AT MIDNIGHT
My eyes flooded with sleep
at the sound of a drop of rain

the trill of a nightingale
froze in the moonlight.

Now I have crowded my room with birds:
stuffed birds who ever croaked.

Strange moans are heard
sorrowful voices in the inner ear.

Within me lies the help
I have been calling for years;

till now my voice has not reached it.
Still some kind of noise has prevented me.

Now and then the door opens by itself
in a mysterious manner
I shall never discover.

Melissanthi Songs For Alto and Guitar. Published by Musik Fabrik. (mfdws021v)
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