Here are the lyrics to “Hymn to Freedom,” written in 1961 by Manatee County resident Harriette Merolla. “When every heart joins every heart and together yearns for liberty, That's when we'll ...

THE Greek National Anthem is traditionally played at the Olympic Games (Rio’s start on Friday) as recognition of Greece as the birthplace of the… ...

Written by poet Dionysios Solomos in 1823 "Hymn to Liberty" or "Hymn to Freedom" depicts the hardships of the Greek people which they suffered from getting liberty from the Ottoman Empire ...

Rudyard Kipling’s 1918 paean to liberty is based on the Greek anthem, the original of which (written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823) was 158 verses long! HYMN TO LIBERTY We knew thee of old ...