Looketh upon my spirit’s unsoiled essence,
As through the pure transparence of the sky;
Let not the oppressor clap his bloody hands,
As o’er my prostrate innocence he stands.
But if, alas, it seemeth good to Thee
That I should perish as the guilty dies,
Still, fully in me, Thy will be done, O God!”
Placido had a symmetrically developed character. All great men have this. His intellectual and moral nature blended harmoniously as
“Kindred elements into one.”