What is Samothrace,

rising like a ship,

what is Imbros rending the storm-waves

with its breast?

What is Naxos, Paros, Milos,

what the circle about Lycia,

what, the Cyclades'

white necklace?

What is Greece—

Sparta, rising like a rock,

Thebes, Athens,

what is Corinth?

What is Euboia

with its island violets,

what is Euboia, spread with grass,

set with swift shoals,

what is Crete?

What are the islands to me,

what is Greece?

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