Friday, February 19, 2010

St. Barbatus (patron of Benevento, Italy)


calamities to enter

into themselves


on whom the terrors

of the divine judgment

make very little impression


transient glances

do not lead to

a change of heart


sickness daily

produces


live on in former

lukewarmness

and disorders


upon the appearance

of an unusual meteor


a rumor that the city

would be destroyed by fire

from heaven


the inhabitants

were seized

with a panic fear


all began to do penance

and fled


with the emperor

at their head

to a great distance


from the city


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*this poem is written using found text while researching Barbatus


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