You will come like a lightning
The country will have feast
The sea, the earth and the sky
In your light.
I will wear white clothes
to touch you again
You light and, my heart, me
How much I love you.
King of Kings, Help the King,
Mercy, mercy, God, of Heaven
Constantine Dragases Palaiologos,
By the grace of God Emperor of Romans.
In the Gate of Saint Romanus,
Astride on his whitelegged mare,
Four Betas, mercy, mercy, Marmaras,
Bosphorus and Black Tuesday
Shiver, sun, groan, earth,
The City has fallen, the City has fallen
The Queen of Cities, golden gate
and Porphyrogenitus in the Red Apple-tree.
The city was the sabre, the city spear,
The city was the key of the entire Roman Empire
Fall silent, Mother of God and don't cry much,
Again with years and times, will be Yours
In the Gate of Saint Romanus
you went away to another place
and an angel will bring you here
in right time.
Inside the Hagia Sophia
we will find each other again on future liturgy
Greeks together