1. We were like two branches from a single rootstock, growing tall,

    for a time, in the finest way a tree can thrive,

  2. until it was said, “The roots of both have grown deep,

    their planting has flourished, and the fruit has ripened full.”

  3. Then time’s calamity laid one of us low—and

    time spares nothing, nor leaves anything behind.

Sol 5.6