These reasonable songs of savages Seated beauty on its knee Armed itself against justice Contrived to purge the mind To strangle it Where all hearts opened towards the spirit For the body and for the soul Utterly forsaken - you who love the absence That impulse for religion Misfortune was its God That look so lost, on a face so dead Courage and destruction inspire these people Their loathing - a motherless fatherland Roaring debauchery of that madness disaster Our extent of innocence Life - a monstrous dose of venom A glimpse of conversion - happiness Mans melodious noble ambition