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Constantine P Cavafy - Poseidonians
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The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language
	after so many centuries of mingling
	with Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners.
	The only thing surviving from their ancestors
	was a Greek festival, with beautiful rites,
	with lyres and flutes, contests and wreaths.
	And it was their habit toward the festival`s end
	to tell each other about their ancient customs
	and once again to speak Greek names
	that only few of them still recognized.
	And so their festival always had a melancholy ending
	because they remembered that they too were Greeks,
	they too once upon a time were citizens of Magna Graecia;
	and how low they`d fallen now, what they`d become,
	living and speaking like barbarians,
	cut off so disastrously from the Greek way of life.
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