Hope⁷⁶⁷⁶Elpis is a Greek word meaning hope was my name, and Sicily my home,

Where I was nursed, until I came from thence

An exile for the love I bore my lord:

Apart from him my time was full of tears,

Heavy the day, laden with care the night,

(But with him all was joy and peace and love)⁷⁷⁷⁷This line is lost from the original Latin.

And now, my pilgrim’s journey o’er, I rest

Within this sacred place, and witness bear

Before the throne of the Eternal Judge on high.