Oh, miserable mortals! Oh wretched earth!
\nOh, dreadful assembly of all mankind!
\nEternal sermon of useless sufferings!
\nDeluded philosophers who cry, “All is well,”
\nHasten, contemplate these frightful ruins,
\nThis wreck, these shreds, these wretched ashes of the dead;
\nThese women and children heaped on one another,
\nThese scattered members under broken marble;
\nOne-hundred thousand unfortunates devoured by the earth,5
\nWho, bleeding, lacerated, and still alive,
\nBuried under their roofs without aid in their anguish,
\nEnd their sad days!
\nIn answer to the half-formed cries of their dying voices,
\nAt the frightful sight of their smoking ashes,
\nWill you say: “This is the result of eternal laws
\nDirecting the acts of a free and good God!”
\nWill you say, in seeing this mass of victims:
\n“God is revenged, their death is the price for their crimes?”
\nWhat crime, what error did these children,
\nCrushed and bloody on their mothers’ breasts, commit?
\nDid Lisbon, which is no more, have more vices
\nThan London and Paris immersed in their pleasures?
\nLisbon is destroyed, and they dance in Paris! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Oh, miserable mortals! Oh wretched earth! Oh, dreadful assembly of all mankind! Eternal sermon of useless sufferings! Deluded philosophers who cry, “All is well,” Hasten, contemplate these frightful ruins, This wreck, these shreds, these wretched ashes of the dead; These women and children heaped on one another, These scattered members under broken marble; One-hundred thousand […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-shit-happens","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}