Stories for Pleasure and Edification

and the consequence of this divine harmony
makes every stay my fatherland,
and every mortal a bosom friend.
Sacred bonds! which I revere,
Goddess of society! where are the altars,
that mortals build for you?
C.

Timidly I look around,
and murderous hands
stretch themselves out, your holy temple to
profane.
Already the deed of the second
of the born This refers to Cain, the second human born in the biblical narrative of Genesis, who committed the first murder.
prophesied the bloody insult
to your rights.
O you — worthy heirs of his cruel
crimes,
you surpass the bleeding deed
of the first murderer.
Executioners and executioners' henchmen fill the noble
regions of nature,
dying victims sink in blooming valleys
and the lilies redden in the valley
from the shed blood of our brothers.
There I see those bloodthirsty men,
to whom the first of liars The "first of liars" is a traditional epithet for the Devil or the personification of Deception.
gave the name of hero.
These men, born to be brothers,