II. Si rallegra ogni core

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Every heart is happy.

When is life as sweet, as welcome

As it is now?

When with so much love

Does a man bend to his studies?

Or tend to his work?

Start something new?

When is he less aware of his troubles?

Joy is born of pain;

Vain joy, it is the fruit

Of past fear, and makes even one

Who loathed his life,

Tremble and fear death

Thus in long-drawn torment,

Cold, quiet, pale,

The people sweat and tremble, seeing

Moving in to threaten them

Lightening, clouds, and wind.