意译
- I recognize you from the dreadful
- edge of your sword
- I recognize you from the countenance
- which surveys the earth with force
- Risen from the sacred bones
- of the Greeks
- and, valiant as before,
- hail, oh hail, liberty!
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诗歌版本
- I shall always recognise you
- by the dreadful sword you hold,
- as the earth, with searching vision,
- will rule, with spirit bold.
- Twas the Greeks of old whose dying
- brought to birth our spirit free,
- now, with ancient valour rising,
- let us hail you, oh liberty!
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拉迪亚德‧基普林于1918年作成的版本
- We knew thee of old,
- O, divinely restored
- By the lights of thine eyes,
- And the light of thy Sword.
- From the graves of our slain,
- Shall thy valour prevail,
- As we greet thee again,
- Hail, Liberty! Hail!
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