Show THE TUE POPES ODE TO THE TB 1 NEW CENTURY I Translation In the year of Crit t 1900 On the day da e January 1 J From Jesus Jeu Christ The prospects t of the opening century A noble age of good arts is dying d whoever cares eare to t may commemorate c orate in song BOng the public conveniences and the forces of nature that have been laid bare bareMore bareMore bareMore More keenly do the things permitted by b the declining century touch me at these I grieve and wax wroth Oh shame how many monuments monument J of dis die disgrace disgrace grace do I perceive in looking back Shall I mourn T over ver battles and thrones overturned or the monsters of license roaming at will Or the un hallowed war opened with a thousand wiles against the Vatican citadel Where has ha vanished the honor of the city chief of all cities bound by no service the city which the ages which our ancestors peoples revered as the abode of pontiffs Alas Ales for laws Jaws turned away from the Deity Deily What law what faith Is left for the good man malt As soon as they are removed from the altars all laws totter and fall into ruin Do ye hear The herd extols the ne of science grow ing mad and strives to assert the su supreme supreme supreme preme divinity of brute nature Senseless it turns In disgust from front the divine origin of ot our race snatch t f Ing in at empty phantoms in Its ita mind it I I mingles together the race of men and that of beasts beast that cannot be united Oh into iota how shameful an abyss is whirled the blind power of Impotent pride Or Op v mortals at all times the n IL M ands of God He who ho j Tr w T ts i 1 the Life and the tam oh ho Is the straight and only way t tJ heaven only he has power to make the years e rs flow according to their wish for tor those dwelling on earth j I Lately he himself led ltd crowds of the pious seeking making the holy places J to the consecrated con l ashes of ot Peter no mean meaningless meanIngless ingless augury aupry that piety is doming to In i life liCe again I Oh Jesus our judge In future time I grant favor to the course of the rising i age by thy divine power compel the rebellious people to follow better things f i iDo Do thou strew the seed SM pf gentle peace ce may angry passions Ions and find quarrels eels reIs and deplorable Wiles wars a 4 last be quelled drive Into the realms of O f dark darkness d darkness ness the frauds of the wicked May tair one thought under thy th lead re restrain restrain restrain strain kings that they may T on to I obey thy laws may there be bt Q but one lne fold lold and one Shepherd and ancl may m ma one faith falth rule the world I have run ma my course and lave have lived JIved twice nine lustra thy gift Do thou mid d a a crowning sift tt Grant Gra that the prayers pray of 01 thy Len who is entreating thee th may not be m in vain aln |