A buckler unto me;
The horn of my salvation
And my high tower is He.”
“On account of one day, be afraid of all days.”
Many of the inscriptions are from the Bible, and thus not only the churches, but public buildings and private houses teach morality. In the Grisons you see on many the arms of the three leagues engraved; one will bear a cross, another a wild goat, a third a man on horseback, and above them the lines carved,—
“These are the arms of the Grisons,
On the mountains their strongholds lie;
God will have the graciousness
To preserve their liberty.”
This inscription is on a church-bell, dating back four centuries: “Vivos voco, mortuos plango, fulgura frango” (“I call the living, I mourn the dead, I break the lightning”).