The swift wings of centuries but brush against my sides:
Whole kingdoms lie ruined before me.
Events, epochs, peoples, pass by like a river:
To mortals’ vicissitudes here I am a witness.
Unscathed, unbent, I seek heaven, I rise above time,
I am well called your Image, O Holy Faith.
Whole kingdoms lie ruined before me.
Events, epochs, peoples, pass by like a river:
To mortals’ vicissitudes here I am a witness.
Unscathed, unbent, I seek heaven, I rise above time,
I am well called your Image, O Holy Faith.
Iosephus (or Giuseppe) del Ton (1900-1997) Italy (lived most of his life in Vatican City)
Translated by John Byron Kuhner
Source: Inside the Vatican
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