Lenta germoglia e lenta si matura
La rovere del bosco, e a lungo dura.
II vento la disfronda e la flagella:
Ma il vento passa e lei si rinnovella.

Translation: Slowly doth bud, and slowly doth mature The woodland oak, yet doth long time endure. Lashed by the winds, her leaves around she steews, But, the wind passed, her beauty she renews. | Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 354.