: Pentecost I never liked Manzoni as a poet, too rhetorical, emphatic and stuffed with odd meters, which remind me of the Corriere dei Piccoli. It is perhaps a partial exception to Pentecost, one of the hymns. I like this poem the attack solemn Mass by singing, rhymes and some hazardous-type Haiti Disputes (vv.86-87) that make you feel the arrival of poetry even in modern Italy. In any case I thought I'd publish it, today is Pentecost and the need for a Spirit to come down to enlighten me is always very strong.
PENTECOST
[21 June to 2 October 1817]
Madre de 'Santi,
image of the Eternal City, Del
incorruptible blood
Conservative eternal
5 You who, for so many centuries,
Suffer, fight and pray,
What are your tents explain
from one sea;
range of those who wait;
10 Church of the Living God, never
Where were you? what angle you
raccogliea nascent
When your King, the wicked
Section to die on the hill,
15 Purple clods
Of his sublime altar?
is then that the darkness
The star stripped out, the powerful yearning
He put 20 of second life;
And when, as in going
The price of forgiveness,
by this dust
Parent ascended the throne;
25 Partner his groan,
Aware de 'mysteries,
You, of his immortal victory
Daughter, where were you? In your terror alert
sol, Sol 30
secura oblivion,
You were placed in walls,
Up to that sacred day, when
to you the Spirit descended
Rinnovator
35 and inconsunta
torch lit in your right hand;
When Signal de 'peoples,
you on mount,
And it' your lips the source
opened 40 of the word.
As the light rains of rapid
thing into a thing, And the color variety
raises
Wherever you rest;
45 multiplies
Tal rang the voice of Spirit:
Arabic, childbirth, the Syrian
In his sermon 's heard.
adorer idols,
50 shed for each strand, I look
to Solima,
Hear that holy cry
Tired of the cowardly deference, he returns to Earth
: 55
And you open day
a happier age,
Brides, which immediately raises the
Balzar of the pond hidden;
You are already close to break the 60 lap
painful;
the liar pollination
not lift your hand
kept growing to the Holy
What is in your breasts. Why
65, kissing babies, even enslaved
The sighs? And Senator
that nurtures free
Envying aims?
not know that the kingdom the poor
70 Seco Mr. raise?
that all children of Eve
In his grief, he thought?
Nova
skies proclaim duty-free, and nine people;
75 Nine conquests and glory
Won in the best evidence;
Nova, the terrors and the lures property
treacherous,
Peace, the world mocks, but that
80 can not ravish.
O Spirit! appealing
A 'your solemn altars,
Suns to inhospitable jungles, deserts, seas in
Vaghi, 85
algenti from going to Lebanon, Erina all'irta
D'Haiti,
scattered throughout the litigation, Uni Te heart,
We T'imploriam! Placable
90 Spirit, come down again,
A 'Cultor your gracious, merciful to those who
T'ignora;
Come down and re-creates, in the heart revives
I doubt extinct;
95 E is the Divine Mercy
vanquished the victor. Descend
Amor; The anger in the minds
superb muted:
Dona i thought that the mindful
Last 100 days does not change;
your charitable gifts
Nutra your virtue;
As the lazy sun that opens
From the flower seed ;
105 which then slowly die Herbs humiliation
not cultivated, will rise with shining
Color
flap loose, cast him into the ether
If
110 will not be back that mild
Lume, giver of life, and tireless
altor. We
T'imploriam! Ne 'languid
Pensier unhappy
115 Get pleasing breath, comforter
Aura: Get
Thought for the storm to swollen violent;
There blows a 120
dismay that teaches compassion.
For You raise the poor
to heaven, which is his brows;
Volga laments rejoice, thinking that resembles
;
125 Cui was given a copy,
Doni with a friendly face,
With that modest silence,
What makes you accept the Don.
Spira de 'our dolls
130 Nell'ineffabil rice
Spread the chaste maidens At
purple in the face;
Send to hid hid virgin
The pure joy;
135 Consecrate brides
The Verecondo love. Hardening
de 'bold young talent
The confidant;
Reggi the manly about 140
For infallible sign;
adorn the white hair of a gay
holy desires;
watch shines in errant
Whose hope dies.
