Beseeches

To preserve beauty on the earth, beauty herself beseeches us to plant trees, and renew dead landscapes with the shadow and light of plant life flitting through the pendant limbs, the willowy boughs and the waving foliage of sturdy, yet graceful woods.

He then beseeches God to kill him, a request which is denied when God causes a tree to grow over him, giving him shade.

She beseeches them to defend and protect the city and to follow their queen (the virgin Mary).