Arbëresh song - x

A great dawn awaits you
And you will find the words
That you do not use now.
It will be a bright dawn
And everything will sing out in the sunshine -
The vineyards, the river, the house,
Your swelling heart
Will sing out in the sunshine.
You are a strong root
And your army has no foot soldiers
For they are all captains.
Greetings, my brother.

[Këngë arbëreshe X, from the volume Këngë arbereshe, Tirana: Naim Frashëri 1982, p. 69, translated from the Albanian by Robert Elsie, and first published in English in An elusive eagle soars, anthology of modern Albanian poetry, London: Forest Books 1993, p. 59]