Hero ile Leandros: Gizli Sevdaların Kandili

Tell, goddess, of the lamp, witness to secret loves, and of the nightly swimmer of sea-faring marriages, and of the murky wedding, which the immortal dawn did not see. Sestos and Abydos, where the nightly marriage of Hero was. And Leander swimming together, and the lamp I hear, a lamp announcing the messenger of Aphrodite. A lamp, the image of love; which the celestial Zeus ought to have led after the nightly labor to the assembly of stars, and to have named it the bridal star of loves, because it was the fellow-worker of love-maddened pains. But come, sing with me the single end of the lamp being extinguished, and of the perishing Leander. Sestos was and Abydos opposite, near the sea. They are neighboring cities, and Love, tightening his bow, for both cities launched a single arrow, burning the young man and the maiden. And you, if ever you pass there, seek for me a certain tower, where once Sestian Hero stood holding a lamp, and was a guide to Leander. And seek the strait of ancient, sea-striking Abydos, still weeping for the fate and the love of Leander.