VERSI SPAGNUOLI DI PIETRO BEMBO.

“O Muerte! que sueles ser.”

Thou, the stem monarch of dismay,

Whom nature trembles to survey,

O Death! to me, the child of grief,

Thy welcome power would bring relief,

Changing to peaceful slumber many a care.

And though thy stroke may thrill with pain

Each throbbing pulse, each quivering vein;

The pangs that bid existence close,