Tommaso da Celano

“ Wondrous sound the trumpet flingeth;
through earth's sepulchers it ringeth;
all before the throne it bringeth.
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Death is struck, and nature quaking,
all creation is awaking,
to its Judge an answer making. ”

“ Some scholars question whether the remainder is an addition made in order to suit the great poem for liturgical use, for the last stanzas discard the consistent scheme of triple rhymes in favor of rhymed couplets, while the last two lines abandon rhyme for assonance and are, moreover, catalectic:
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Lacrimosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus:
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Pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem. Amen.
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Ah! that day of tears and mourning!
From the dust of earth returning
man for judgment must prepare him ”