There is no tongue to speak his eulogy Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth, He to the realms of sinfulness came down, To teach mankind, ascending then to God, Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates, To whom his country heres refused to ope. Ungrateful land Well, too, does this instruct That greatest ills fall to the perfectest. And, midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice That, as his exile had no parallel, So never was there man more great than he.
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