Athlos - Enslaved (A Slave's Odyssey) Lyrics: Enslaved (A Slave's Odyssey) From the Orient I come In a golden frigate With five Pashas onboard And such a beautiful song... A handsome slave there was Bound in iron fetters cold... And the slave did sigh and the frigate stopped short... Then the captain cried out from atop the prow: "Who thus sighed and frigate stopped short?" "I am he who thus sighed and the frigate stopped short!" "Slave, art thou hungry? Art thou thirsty? Hast thou no clothes to wear?" "Neither hungry, nor thirsty am I; nor need of clothes do I have... Only my home I recalled and my poor wife to whom I was three days married and then for twelve long years enslaved... Pasha, have you not mother and children? For their shake, set me free!" "Sing to us ye slave and I shall set you free" "Oft times before have I sung, but no freedom was I granted... Still, if freedom be the prize, I shall sing yet again! Untie my hands, cast down the iron fetters cold, and give me my lute and my old drum to lament my sorrow, to lament for he who was three days married and then for twelve long years enslaved..." Twelve years I dwelt Far, in the Arabian sand; Nine palm orchards planted I Before my prision's very gate - From all nine I did taste the fruit But tasted no freedom therein... "Pasha, have you not mother and children? For their shake, set me free!" A thousand gold coins were given to the slave, and a steed as gift... And even before a fare-you-well was spoken he had <b>...</b>
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