Sultan Murat sat astride his steed
and observed the prisoner bound hand and foot
his advanced age, his wounds, his chains...
"Albanian" he inquired, "why do you fight
when you could live differently?"
"Becasue, Padishah" replied the prisoner
"every man has a piece of sky in his breast
and in it flies a swallow"

"Sultan Murat and the Albanian" by Fatos Arapi