Now brotherhood has been so cut to shreds that in the stead of the community; the country has been given pride of place in men’s allegiance and constructive work;

The Country is the darling of their hearts, and wide humanity is whittled down into dismembered tribes.

Men thought to find Paradise in that miserable abode; of ruin where they made the peoples dwell.

This tree has banished heaven from the world; and borne for fruit the bitterness of war;

Humanity is but a legend, man become a stranger to his fellow-man.

The spirit has departed from the flesh,only the seven disjointed limbs remain; vanished is humankind, there but abide the disunited nations.

Politics dethroned religion, this tree first struck root within a Western garden;

And the tale of Christianity was all rolled up; the radiance of the Church’s lantern dimmed;

Pope powerless and baffled, from his hand the counters scattered;

Jesus’ followers spurning the Church; debased the coinage of the True Cross’s Law.

When atheism fist rent religion’s garment, there arrived that Satan’s messenger;

The Florentine who worshipped falsehood, whose collyrium shattered the sight of men.

He wrote a scroll for Princes, and so scattered in our clay the seed of conflict;

His fell genius decamped to darkness, and his sword like pen struck Truth asunder.

Carving images like Azar was his trade; his fertile mind conceived a new design;

His novel faith proclaimed the State the only worship; his thoughts the ignoble turned to praise-worthy.

So, when the feet of this adorable he kissed, the touchstone that he introduced to test the truth was Gain.

His doctrine caused falsehood to flourish; plotting stratagems became an art.

A sad and sorry end attended the regime which he devised, that caltrop which he scattered on the road of advancing days.

Dark night he wrapped about the peoples’ eyes; deception called, in his vocabulary, expediency.