Galileo's Faith

Xavier Tubio '28

The solar system’s true center has been found,

And so I deem the Church doctrine to be flawed

For it is not the Earth that the planets revolve around

Because my claim in the present only confounds,

They have labeled me a fraud

But I remain confident in this knowledge, newfound

They tell me heliocentrism is heresy, hellbound

Their inquisitions and trials strike like claws

But I know my luminosity will one day be renowned

Although at the present I am hounded

By the Church, and leaving home has been outlawed

I know that la sapienza will be crowned

And even when my body is lowered into the ground

I know I have done the work of God

To guide falling bodies towards the light, sun-bound

The Catholic Church will eventually come around

As my ideas rise from the ground, expounded

By a revolution that will cause

The Galileo spacecraft that is moon-bound