Hallo. Ich bin in Larnaka auf eine Statue gestoßen und habe ein Foto von der Inschrift gemacht, aber wenn ich den Google-Übersetzer verwende, fällt die Übersetzung etwas aus. Könnte mir jemand die Bedeutung der Inschrift erklären?

The top part is a portion of a poem by Michael C Parides. It says that it’s desirable to find at the end of the struggle a hug by the hands of someone faithful who waited like Penelope and kept herself pure. But if you leave your last breath at the battlefield your life was offered usefully.
The bottom part says the monument was made with money given by the people of Larnaka and others in the memory of Michael C Parides who sacrificed his life for his country. It was an initiative of Pezoporikos(old football club that later made AEK), the year it was made and last, the name of the sculptor.

This is my own clumsy translation:

Desirable is to find

in the end of struggles

a faithful Penelope’s

pure hugs

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But if you leave in battle

your last breath

You could not more usefully

your life to offer