The fiery summit of the sky enfolds in an instant. With immense charring beasts, men, birds,Īnd whatever the collapsing sky can boast Mountains crumble, a burning brand sets fire to steep ridges Seas, earth, and sky all become a single furnace, Then the sea’s expanse will provide fuel for blazing pyres… Toward the close of the piece his thoughts turn to the day of judgment and the end of the world, a vast conflagration in which all things will be consumed: In its two hundred or so lines he denounces his own sinfulness, describes his sorrow and remorse, appeals to God for forgiveness, and regrets that he was ever born. And his poem was on a good Christian subject, repentance. Verecundus was a good Christian, indeed a bishop. In the mid-sixth century AD a North African writer named Verecundus sat down to compose a Latin poem.
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