
Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Song language: English
Chosen |
Orders shouted in a strange guttural tongue that resounded |
Along the walls of the houses, which seemed dead and deserted |
While, behind the closed shutters, eyes watched the conquerors |
Who, by right of war, were now masters of the city and of the lives |
And fortunes of its people |
In their darkened ruins the inhabitants have given way to the same |
Feeling of panic which is aroused by natural cataclysms, those |
Devastating upheavals of the Earth, against which wisdom and |
Strength alike are of no avail |
Though the same feeling is experienced wherever the established |
Order of things is upset, when security ceases to exist, when all that |
Was previously protected by the laws of man and nature is suddenly |
Placed at the mercy of brutal, unreasoning force |
The earthquake, burying a whole people beneath the ruins of their |
Houses, the river in spate, sweeping away the bodies of drowned |
Peasants, together with the carcasses of cattle and rafters torn from |
Roofs, and the victorious army slaughtering all who resist, making |
Prisoners of the rest, looting by right of the sword, and thanking their |
God to the sound of cannon |
All these are terrifying scourges which undermine all our belief in |
Eternal justice and all the trust we have been taught to place in divine |
Protection and human reason |
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