So I stood up, pretending I had moreBreath than I had been feeling that I had,And said: "Lead on! I'm strong. I have no fear.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground

O Virgins, sacrosanct, if I have ever, for your sake, suffered vigils,cold,, and hunger, great need makes me entreat my recompense.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?