Capitolo 66
I won't be an excruciated of the thing
To arrange his/her passion an anguish of delight!_,)
DIVIDES III
VIRGINITY IS PERFECTION
JUDITH
ME
THE CITY BESIEGED OF BETHULIA
JUDITH (_at the window of a superior room of his/her house_).
This compassionate city!--But, Or God,
You strengthen me that I don't bend in contempt
Of all this desperate people; for me I am weak
With being sorry for their tearful souls.
Ah, when I hear the pain groan in the roads,
And the same breath that their torn wounds strangle nearby, used
To boast the God in them inviolato
And fighting away the hands of the heathen,--God,
You forgive me that I come so next to contempt;
Forgive me soul of mine that I have loosened,
The rigor of my mind and my leant toward contempt!--
Friends, wives and husbands, children and daughters, dead
Of sore, the famine and arrows: and the houses
Beaten dangerous from cannonades of stone
Launched in from the Assyrians: I city-wall up her
Crumbling out of their masonry in tumults
Of foolish earth, so tormented by the rams:
I hunger-torment her, the thirst it likes swallowed cements
Forcing water green worm-rapids swallows them
That waits for in angles of dried cisterns: yea,
You murder facts for a drink of blood and meat
Soaked of infants: and any hope I live
Of liberation from this heat of the anguish of prisoning
Until Assyrian swords they drown him in death;--
These and abandoned words as these, I feel
Daylong screeches and groans in the passages under.
What needeth Holofernes more? The Hebrews,
God's People, the Hebrews complain about their fortune;
Their souls are violated by the world;
The The Hebrews you/he/she is conquered; and men's crop
Sown for the barns of God, has withered down,
How grass weaker flat-trodden by the sun,
In a short season of fear. Yea, swords and fire
You/he/she cannot do more destruction on this people:
An inopportune mowing and fair he is now suitable
This incapable corn of sacred bread,
This field that doesn't give profit but to blaze!
The choice of God should do what for a people,