an age gone by, an era collapsed!
all holy shrines and relics
abandoned to an enemy in advance,
and hunted like mice their gold and gem became
by the great and mad Seljuk dragon,
noble, magnificent enemy!
[there was never any true hope left after Manzikert.]
land of mysticism and solemnity,
hear my akathist hymn
before its words negate into the very silence
which swallow wholly Anatolia.
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