The Works of John Hookham Frere In Verse and Prose Now First Collected with a Prefatory Memoir by his Nephews W. E. and Sir Bartle Frere |
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LINES WRITTEN AFTER VISITING THE MONASTERIES AT CATANIA.
“Li Beati singulari
Son poi mi di Regolari
Va vidite a Le Cunventi,
Ca su tutti ben contenti.”
—Vivu Mortu.
Son poi mi di Regolari
Va vidite a Le Cunventi,
Ca su tutti ben contenti.”
—Vivu Mortu.
Monks and holy clerks profest
Lead the sweetest and the best,
The securest life of all.
Look within the convent wall,
See the countenances there
Unannoy'd by worldly care,
Unaffected happy faces,
With the features and the traces
Of habitual tranquillity:
With the joyous affability
That bespeaks a heart and head,
Undisturb'd at board and bed,
Studious hours and holy rites,
Occupy their days and nights;
Study, learning, and devotion,
Leading onward to promotion;
Here discreet and trusty Friars,
Rule the Brotherhood as Priors;
Some are known as casuists,
Theologians, canonists;
One among them, here and there,
Rises to the prelate's chair.
Thence again his parts and knowledge,
Fix him in the sacred college,
With the robe of Cardinal;
Last—the topmost point of all—
The majestic throne of Pope,
Stands within the verge of hope:
That supreme and awful state,
Which the noble and the great
With devout obeisance greet,
Humbly falling at his feet.
Messina, Feb. 9, 1821.
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