What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today.

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

Arriving there is what you are destined for

Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.

The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.