Kóstas Ouránis (1890-1953), Five Poems [Translated from the Greek by Yannis Goumas]
18Ιου
Edward VI
In hushed Westminster Abbey’s gloomy vaults,
reposed at the feet of his illustrious ancestors,
Edward the Sixth, a sixteen-year-old king,
sleeps his eternal marble sleep, long since forgotten.
He was a sober, sad, kindly youth
who in his cold palace lived with books,
with bishops and stern sages for companions,
whose death became his only history.
Since he had no love affairs, nor made war,
on his marble tomb have not been carved
the triumphal blazons left him by his forefathers,
but only these flowers for his royal crest:
the Galatian lily and the Tudor rose.
Fragrant his tomb, as though these flowers were real.
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