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Portrait of Zacharias Papantoniou Zacharias Papantoniou The High Mountains — The Malediction of the Pine

The Malediction of the Pine
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You have cut down the pine, Yannis
But why? Why?”
“It's the wind that whispers...” Yannis said to himself
and he walked on.
Stones and pebbles get hot, and the heath
is blazing,
He must find a spring, small
a tiny stream.
Under the sun's fire, in the middle of the fields
there a bush...
Yannis lies down underneath to find
a little shade.
But the bush gathers up its branches,
it goes away!
“Then I will never be able to rest, said Yannis.
But why? Why?”
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—Yannis, where do you want to go like this?
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