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‘And you tell, on clean and shiny sheets of paper, the pain of a nation

For the power of a nation is in its poetry.

A gift to our future generations and to the sadness and grief of our past,

I am an orphan and I am obstinate, be well,

For I shall go searching for my loss…

Sing me a song from your songs, a song, for I wish to die singing…’

– ‘Siamanto’ (Atom Yarjanian) (1878-1915)