What are we waiting so gathered in the square?
the barbarians are coming today.
Why such chaos in the Senate?
Why do the Senators sit without legislating?
E 'the barbarians are coming today.
What laws would vote for the Senators?
When the barbarians will make the law.
Why did our emperor, got up so early,
sits on a dais outside the city,
solemn, with the crown?
E 'the barbarians are coming today.
The Emperor is preparing to receive their leader.
He even had prepared a parchment
Appeals that the grants and honorary titles.
Why have our two consuls and magistrates our flaunt their red robes embroidered?
Why are adorned with amethyst bracelets and rings sparkling with diamonds?
Why bring their sticks and finely chiseled valuable?
E 'the barbarians are coming today and such things dazzle the barbarians.
Because our rhetorical skills not plead with their usual eloquence?
E 'the barbarians are coming today. They do not appreciate the beautiful sentences or long speeches.
And why, suddenly, this uneasiness, and this upheaval?
As have become serious faces!
Why the streets and squares emptying so fast
and all return home with a look so sad?
E 'which is the night fell and the barbarians have not come.
And the people came from the border saying that there are not barbarians ...
And now what will become of us without barbarians?
They were however a solution.
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