Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing. |
The whole world will eventually be in disorder, and the sound of lamentation will be heard everywhere. |
The drama opens with Boni's lamentation about the struggles of life in Bonikope. |
But not lamentations in the sense of tombs of the period, rather lamentation on the loss of meaning in art, a reflection on art itself. |
English's Germanic cousins are more vivid: German calls it Karfreitag, from an old German root chara, meaning lamentation. |
Highly effective as a literary dirge and lamentation, it comes up short when judged by the standards of the history discipline. |