雅典的少女啊,在我們分別前,
把我的心,把我的心交還!
或者,既然它已經和我脫離,
留著它吧,把其餘的也拿去!
請聽一句我臨別前的誓語:
你是我的生命,我愛你。
我要憑那無拘無束的鬈發,
每陣愛琴海的風都追逐著它;
我要憑那墨玉鑲邊的眼睛,
睫毛直吻著你頰上的嫣紅;
我要憑那野鹿似的眼睛誓語:
你是我的生命,我愛你。
還有我久欲一嚐的紅唇,
還有那輕盈緊束的腰身;
我要憑這些定情的鮮花,
它們勝過一切言語的表達;
我要說,憑愛情的一串悲喜:
你是我的生命,我愛你。
雅典的少女啊,我們分了手;
想著我吧,當你孤獨的時候。
雖然我向著伊斯坦堡飛奔,
雅典卻抓住我的心和靈魂:
我能夠不愛你嗎?不會的!
你是我的生命,我愛你。
Maid of Athens, ere we part,
Give, oh, give back my heart!
Or, since that has left my breast,
Keep it now, and take the rest!
Hear my vow before I go,
Zoe uml; mou sas agapo.
By those tresses unconfined,
Wooed by each Aegean wind;
By those lids whose jetty fringe
Kiss thy soft cheeks' blooming tinge;
By those wild eyes like the roe,
Zoe uml; mou sas agapo.
By that lip I long to taste;
By that zone-encircled waist;
By all the token-flowers that tell
What words can never speak so well;
By love's alternate joy and woe,
Zoe uml; mou sas agapo.
Maid of Athens! I am gone:
Think of me, sweet! when alone.
Though I fly to Istambol,
Athens holds my heart and soul:
Can I cease to love thee? No!
Zoe uml; mou sas agapo