HEROIC POEM OF GIOVANNI FRANCESCO PICO, LORD OF MIRANDOLA AND COUNT OF CONCORDIA, ON THE MYSTERIES OF THE LORD'S CROSS RECENTLY FALLEN IN GERMANY, TO MAXIMILIAN AUGUSTUS, KING OF THE ROMANS.

New insignias Germany’s recently fallen insignias of the land namely, the Cross.

I myself of the ethereal Prince, I will sing, O three-times-great Caesar, O Maximilian.

If I prepare my mind If the wonderful mass of things wonderful matters excels me.

not It would not end the silent voice from my breast it does not allow.

but it overcame me To bring forth, but piety will overcome, audacity will overcome pious audacity.

let it be far away Let Bromius Dionysus depart, the Cyprian Venus from the foaming sea Venus.

let it depart Let Thymbraean Apollo solar god be far away from here, let him vanish.

poets The fable of the Pierides The Muses, be far from here, be far away, you profane strangers.

for For we sing the miracles of the life-bearing King Christ.

who dispels Who dispelled the figments of the gods from the mad world idols.

help Christ, favor these beginnings, and you, O most holy virgin Mary.

celestial Queen of the empyrean pole, and mother of the sounding God.

govern Steer the wave-wandering boat through the windy seas my work.

after After the swift one descended from the flame-bearing axis heaven.

Christ The highest offspring of God, wisdom of the highest Father Son.

sins That the stains badly contracted from the first seed Adam.

blood He might wash away with the purple wave of sacred blood to bathe.

sinners So that He might carry the wandering mortals to the closed Olympus heaven.

revealed He poured out sacred lights upon the profaned world the most wretched.

expelling Expelling the Tartarean darkness from the hearts of men sins.