If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason. - Alexander Pushkin

Cantó el amor, y el canto suyo
era tan límpido y puro
como el pensar de una doncella,
como los sueños de un niño,
como la luna en los cielos,
nocturna diosa indolente
de los misterios y suspiros.

Cantó el dolor y el olvido,
cantó las rosas y las brumas,
cantó lejanas tierras donde
sus lágrimas se derramaban
en la soledad; cantó asimismo
marchitas flores de la vida
teniendo apenas dieciocho.

Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling.

It was thought that the confession of the accused was indispensable to his condemnation, an idea not only unreasonable, but contrary to the most simple good sense in matters of jurisprudence; for if the denial of the accused is not accepted as proof of his innocence, the confession which is torn from him by torture ought to serve still less as proof of his guilt.