Paolo Diacono – Paulus Diaconus "History Of The Lombards"

and in command takes the deadly food away from the crow.

It pains the holy heart that his enemy died in the fall;

through the guilt of the disciple the holy heart hurts;

On the pleasant banks of the glorious Liri guides accompany you;

from heaven you fell to the pleasant banks of the Liri.

Iniquitous snake, you rage stripped of the woods and the area;

for the peoples you have lost, O unjust serpent, you are raging.

Evil you are on top, go away: let the marble be placed on the walls;

His order bends you: go away, wicked you're on.

You can see a voracious fire rising with false flames;

but you, shining Gemma, do not see that voracious fire.

As he pulls up the wall, his brother's bowels torn;

The brother comes back to safety as he pulls up the wall.

What has been done in secret appears, the gluttons are revealed;

the fact appears secretly.

Ferocious tyrant, the nets of your deception are in vain.

receive a brake on your life, fierce tyrant.

The high walls of Nuka by no enemy will be torn down;

a whirlwind - he says - knocks down the excellent walls of Numa.

You are beaten by the fierce enemy, because you do not offer the sacred gift to the altar;

You offer the sacred gift to the altar; you are beaten by the fierce enemy.

In the future he sees every enclosure of the flock given to a lineage;

but that same lineage rebuilds every enclosure of the flock.

O servant friend of fraud, you are screwed by the serpent's enticements;

but you are not prey to the serpent, a servant friend of fraud.

Silent mind, keep quiet: do not murmur of those who see silent thoughts;

everything is revealed to the prophet; shut up, mind proud.

Foods brought down from heaven cast out black hunger;

and at the same time the black hunger of the mind is chased away.

All hearts are amazed that you without a body are present;

that you in view disturb, the hearts are all amazed.

At the command of the voice they try to stop the tongues;

they flee the sepulchre under the command of the voice.

they are not allowed to remain in command during the rite;

together with the sacred rites in command of the voice.

The earth is split and the buried body is rejected from the womb;

at your command the broken earth holds the body in its womb.

The perfidious dragon seduces the fugitive to hurry;

but the evil dragon blocks the forbidden path.

A deadly disease has shaken the gold catkin of the head;

at his command he escaped g and the deadly disease.

Merciful he promises to those who need it the fawn metal without having it;

by the work of heaven the pitiful finds the metal fawn.

You, worthy of compassion, Chuli spot snakeskin poisons;

get your skin intact as before, or worthy of compassion.

Fans bounce the rugged rocks off the glass, nor can they break it;

the harsh rocks remain intact the glass.

Why dispenser, hesitate to offer a drop of the jar?

Look: the jars are overflowing. Why do you hesitate?

How can you have medicine that you have no hope of salvation;

You who always give death, how can you have medicine?

Ah, miserable old man, you fall upon the blows of the enemy;

but suddenly you come back to yourself, old miserable.

The barbarian's ropes shake innocent hands;

The barbarian's ropes are united by themselves.

That superb horse screams threatening cries,

prostrate on the ground lies that superb horse.

Around the neck the father carries the beloved body of the extinct son;

the father carries the alive son around his neck.

Everything wins love: with the rain he bound his sister the blessed;

sleep stays away from the eyelids, everything wins love.

Accept for its simplicity, fly into the sky like a dove;

Reaches the kingdom of heaven, for its simplicity.

Or embraced God, to whom the whole universe is revealed,

you that the arcane manifest.

In a sphere of fire the righteous one rises into the ether;

to which a sacred love burned or a sphere of fire closes.

Three times called came who must witness the prodigy;

precious for the love of his father, three times called he comes.

O good leader, who by exhorting to fight reinforces the spirits by example

I throw you first among the weapons, good leader, exhort to fight.

Sufficient signs he did leaving common life;

rushing to life, he made suitable signs.

A regular psalmist, he never gave rest to his plectrum;

singing to God the assiduous psalmist died.

Those who had only one heart, encloses the same sepulchre;

The same glory surrounds those who had one heart.

A splendid street appeared, lit with corpuscle torches;

a way by which the splendid ascent Saint appeared.

Reached the rocky fence, in his rambling he gets salvation;

escapes his rambling, reached the rocky fence.

Poor verses composed the supplicant servant on offer;

exile, poor, weak, poor verses he composed.

Accept they are, please, or guide them to the path of heaven;

O Father Benedetto, please accept them.

We also composed a hymn in the "iambic meter Archilochus", which contains the individual miracles of the same Father Benedict:

Briskly, Brothers, Come;

in Chorus we join in singing;

we live the joys of this

radiant holiday.

On these days Benedict

showing us the arduous path,

our father, went up to the golden kingdom,

taking the prize for his work.

As a new star shone,

that clears the mists of the world.

Still on the threshold of life

escape from the flowering meadows of the century.

Powerful to work miracles,

by the breath of God inspired,