Never to Return -

A last cup of wine

A final embrace

In the shades of Parnon

Yet it’s not daybreak

In tearless silence

They watch us go

The pain of their hearts

Only the Gods know

Mothers and sisters

Daughter and wives

How many times

Have you stood here?

Watching those you love

Marching out to war

Departing to their deaths

Never to return

Nothing a good in life

Comes without a price

And we have learned

To breathe the air of liberty

Freedom we have chosen

And now we’ll fight for it

What our fathers did

We can do no less

These were the last

Words of farewell

Come back with your shield

Or come back on it