The pilgrim Life waylaid by cruel Despair,
Wealth dowering Evil and maltreating Good,
And Pain and Care tormenting Body and Soul,
And Giant Sin bestriding hill and dale,
Building his shrines for men to worship him;
Corruption, too, with serpents in his hair,
And next, obscene Ungodliness, whose eyes
Vacant and dull, bent ever on the earth.
Then, last of all, Humanum Genus came
Bearing a scroll with the Apostle's words—