Ah, blind and dull! Let us not chide

The dwellers in far Italy,

But rather draw the veil aside

From our own eyes, that we may see,

Lo! all that seemed but commonplace,

Adorned with beauty and with grace!


Lamentation of the Lungs.

Alas! has winter come again? Oh, how we dread the day!

The sufferings we undergo the bravest might dismay.