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 'twixt the partly opened fingers

Wealth of pearly tears outpouring

Like a flood of shining rain drops,

Yes, and that with heavy sighing

Tremble walls and trembles ceiling.

Thus, no doubt, felt man in parting

With the Eden's gates for ever,

Thus have felt the subdued demons

When by God thrown in the abyss.

Thus felt God at world's creation

When he realized, thereafter,

That he made the world for sorrow.

Moonlight vanished all is darkness

As within the prelate's bosom.

At the daybreak, Brothers found him

Lying on the slab of marble,

Blood upon his wrinkled features.

They revived him with an effort.

Twice his withered lips yet quivered

As he whispered his last query.

"What happened to Satanella?"

—Burned at stake, as was the judgment!

"What happened to Roderigo?"

—He had tried to leap and perish

At the stake with Satanella.