Dragan Nikolic recites the Ode to a Blue Sea Tomb, by Milutin Bojic

Immortal verses of Serbian poet, Milutin Bojic, dedicated to thousands of Serbian soldiers, died on the Greek island Vido, buried in the sea not far from the coast!
Нека им је вјечна слава!

English Translation (Full Version):

Ode to a Blue Sea Tomb (Plava Grobnica by Milutin Bojic)

Translated by Michael M. Petrovich

Hail to you, imperial galleys! Restrain your

mighty rudders!

Stroke your oars silently!

I'm proudly officiating a sublime Requiem in the chill

of the night

Upon these sacred waters.

Here at the bottom, where seashells tire in sleep

And upon the dead algae peat falls, 

Stretch the graves of the brave, couched brother

beside brother,

Prometheuses of Hope, Apostles of Pain.

Don't you feel the wafting sea,

That it may not trouble their holy repose?

From the deep abyss peaceful slumber ebbs,

And in tiring flight the moonlight slowly passes.

This is a mysterious temple and a sad graveyard

With decaying carcasses, unfathomably real.

Silent like the night on the tip of the Ionian Sea

Dark as a conscience, cold and despairing.

Don't you feel from your most depressing moods 

That piety grows over this benediction

And the air fills with curious gentleness?

That great soul of the fallen roams

Hail to you, imperial galleys! Upon this tomb

my dear kindred ones

Veil the trumpets in mourning black.

Let your sentry, upright, chant the holy dirge

Here, where waves come to an embrace!

For the centuries will pass as the white foam

vanishes upon the sea without a trace,

And a new and great age will come in its place, 

To create a splendid home upon this grave.

But these waters, in which was shrouded 

the terrible mystery of the Epic,

these waters will be a cradle in Time of legends revealed,

Where the soul will seek out its Destiny.

Buried are here once ancient garlands

And the passing joy of more than one generation,

That's why this cemetery lies in the shadow of waves

Between the bosom of the sea and the vault celestial.

Hail to you, imperial galleys! Extinguish the torches,

Let the oars come to a blustering rest,
And when the Requiem prayers are said, steal away

into the dark night

inaudibly and with reverential awe.

I wish for the eternal silence to rule

and for the glorious dead to hear the noise of Battles, 

And rejoice in our cries of victory, as we cast ourselves beneath

the wings of Glory upon the fields vermillion with blood.

For, there far away, battles sway

With the same blood that emanates from this resting-place:

Here above the eye of the resting lords, 

There before the son's history is made.

That's why I seek peace, to officiate a Requiem

without words, without tears and quiet sighs,

Mingle with the odor of powder, the perfume of incense

As we hear resound the far noise of the cannon.

Hail to you, imperial galleys! In the name

of a conscientious fast 

Glide lightly upon these sacred waters.

A Requiem I'm officiating, one that heavens

have yet to see upon these sacred waters!

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[jazavac56]

Moj se deda nije vratijo a ponosna sam da je bijo medju njima.

Neka im je vecna slava!

[MolerX]

@jazavac56

Slava mu vjecna i hvala!

[VuXman]

Zove se pravilno... Ode to a Blue Sea Tomb

[MolerX]

@VuXman \

Hvala! Ispravljeno i dodao sam engleski prevod!

[dragoslav2909]

Ponosan sam da je moj pradeda Milan Sretenović prosao golgotu i vratio se ziv. A javise ,pre toga, da je poginuo. Uz sve pocasti i obicaje bi "sahranjen" . Ali , pradeda se vratio ziv i zdrav. Poziveo je jos dugo, vracajuci se cesto u secanja, na titane i mucenike sto ostase u tudjini. Neka im je vecna slava i hvala !

[MolerX]

@dragoslav2909

На вама је да чувате успомену на ове див јунаке!!! Хвала твом прадеди на његовом жртвовању!

[ortodoxc]

Драгане,свака част!

[daddycoolsrbija]

Moj pradeda, Stojan Jovic, iz Lipnickog Sora, bio je clan Dinarske divizije. Prosao je golgote Albanije, ucestvovao u probijanju Solunskog fronta i vratio se trijumfalno u otadzbinu. Nosilac je Karadjordjeve zvezde. Nek je vecna slava saborcima moga pradede. "Slava jatu besmrtnika, mir pepelu velikana!"

[kalajification]

Hvala ti za ovo.

[ALomovica]

Cu idem u pizdu materinu. Umalo me nije rasplakao.

[TheGmbo]

Moj vec cukundjed, nije se vratio. Ponosan sam na njega

[Nightmarehan88]

Neprocenjivo... Vecna Vam slava junaci i neizmerno hvala!

[MrFaraday26]

Setimo se Srbi nasih predaka!

I setimo se Arcibalda Rajsa i onoga sto nam je govorio jos pre 80 godina! Nista se od tada nije promenilo...

[vanila188]

Svaka cast! Veoma dirljiva pesma!

[Stranac88]

@djolepfk У праву си. Саслушао само пре пет минута и још плачем.