04-08-2025, 03:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-08-2025, 03:12 PM by RiverNotch.)
After Paradiso VI.
Leaves on the course of falling start as gold
and only on the earth do they turn brown.
Before the Pope were Emperors of Rome;
before them still were Kings by Judges crowned.
Each Bishop sits as King upon his throne,
while Emperors, with Judges, take a stand.
The Eagle which from West to East had flown
departed from this earth, by God's command,
when Golden Lilies plundered his New Roost,
themselves by an assumptive Pope induced
and by a greedy Emperor seduced.
Yet, in the East, no vain hope to restore
our lost Imperial Dignity is core:
O West, were you so true with your reforms!
Leaves on the course of falling start as gold
and only on the earth do they turn brown.
Before the Pope were Emperors of Rome;
before them still were Kings by Judges crowned.
Each Bishop sits as King upon his throne,
while Emperors, with Judges, take a stand.
The Eagle which from West to East had flown
departed from this earth, by God's command,
when Golden Lilies plundered his New Roost,
themselves by an assumptive Pope induced
and by a greedy Emperor seduced.
Yet, in the East, no vain hope to restore
our lost Imperial Dignity is core:
O West, were you so true with your reforms!