Deathless Souls Roam

Embalmed in echoing songs

Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal
Like those champions devoted and brave
When they plunged in the tyrant their steel
And to Athens deliverance gave

Beloved heroes! Your deathless souls roam
In the joy breathing isles of the blest ;
Where the mighty of old have their home–
Where Achilles and Diomed rest

In fresh myrtle my blade I'll entwine
Like Harmodius, the gallant and good
When he made at the tutelar shrine
A liberation of Tyranny's blood

Ye deliverers of Athens from shame!
Ye avengers of Liberty's wrongs!
Endless ages shall cherish your fame
Embalmed in their ecoing songs!