Sparta (Elegy of Heroes)

Ὦ ξεῖν᾿, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε
 κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.
 They told them forces would be rising from the east
 Striking fear into their hearts as from the wild sea rose the beast
 Just three hundred Spartans, as they met them side by side,
 When arrows flew to cloak the sun, they stemmed the Persian tide
 Lead our way, Leonidas
 Give us strength and unite us
 On these rocks the tide will break
 And no one weep at our wake!
 Tell them you saw us ride
 To the gates of our destiny
 Tell them we fought and died
 For our land and our liberty
 And then tell them, you saw us lie
 On the ground as their law commands
 Here they fought immortals and a man-god at these portals
 On their shields and armour clashed swords and arrows, bodies gashed
 And the phalanx held and would not
 Break as Xerxes' pillar dared to quake
 With the dawn a red sun rose, a lion's wrath, a feast for crows...
 Tell them you saw us ride
 To the gates of our destiny
 Tell them we fought and died
 For our land and our liberty
 And then tell them, you saw us lie
 On the ground as their law commands
 And so three hundred rode
 With their dark fate bestowed
 Upon their longest day
 Where they lay
 But so the word was spread
 And, this the legend said,
 Made Greece retaliate
 For Sparta's fate
 Lead our way, Leonidas
 Give us strength and unite us
 On these rocks the tide will break
 And no one weep at our wake!
 Tell them you saw us ride
 To the gates of our destiny
 Tell them we fought and died
 For our land and our liberty
 And then tell them, you saw us lie
 On the ground as their law commands