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OR OF THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HUMAN RACE	B
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Illustrious fathers of the human race	B
Of you the song of your afflicted sons	C
Will chant the praise of you more dear by far	D
Unto the Great Disposer of the stars	E
Who were not born to wretchedness like ours	F
Immedicable woes a life of tears	G
The silent tomb eternal night to find	H
More sweet by far than the ethereal light	I
These things were not by heaven's gracious law	J
Imposed on you If ancient legends speak	K
Of sins of yours that brought calamity	L
Upon the human race and fell disease	M
Alas the sins more terrible by far	D
Committed by your children and their souls	N
More restless and with mad ambition fixed	O
Against them roused the wrath of angry gods	P
The hand of all sustaining Nature armed	Q
By them so long neglected and despised	R
Then life became a burden and a curse	S
And every new born babe a thing abhorred	T
And hell and chaos reigned upon the earth	U
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Thou first the day and thou the shining lights	V
Of the revolving stars didst see the fields	W
And their new flocks and herds O leader old	X
And father of the human family	L
The wandering air that o'er the meadows played	Y
When smote the rocks and the deserted vales	Z
The torrent rustling headlong from the Alps	A2
With sound till then unheard and o'er the sites	V
Of future nations noisy cities yet unknown	B2
To fame a peace profound mysterious reigned	C2
And o'er the unploughed hills in silence rose	D2
The ray of Phoebus and the golden moon	E2
O world how happy in thy loneliness	F2
Of crimes and of disasters ignorant	G2
Oh how much wretchedness Fate had in store	H2
For thy poor race unhappy father what	I2
A series vast of terrible events	J2
Behold the fields scarce tilled with blood are stained	C2
A brother's blood in sudden frenzy shed	K2
And now alas first hears the gentle air	L2
The whirring of the fearful wings of Death	M2
The trembling fratricide a fugitive	N2
The lonely shades avoids in every blast	O2
That sweeps the groves a voice of wrath he hears	P2
He the first city builds abode and realm	Q2
Of wasting cares repentance desperate	R2
Heart sick and groaning thus unites and binds	S2
Together blind and sinful souls and first	T2
A refuge offers unto mutual guilt	U2
The wicked hand now scorns the crooked plough	V2
The sweat of honest labor is despised	R
Now sloth possession of the threshold takes	W2
The sluggish frames their native vigor lose	X2
The minds in hopeless indolence are sunk	Y2
And slavery the crowning curse of all	Z2
Degrades and crushes poor humanity	L
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And thou from heaven's wrath and ocean's waves	A3
That bellowed round the cloud capped mountain tops	B3
The sinful brood didst save thou unto whom	C3
From the dark air and wave encumbered hills	D3
The white dove brought the sign of hope renewed	E3
And sinking in the west the shipwrecked sun	F3
His bright rays darting through the angry clouds	G3
The dark sky painted with the lovely bow	V2
The race restored to earth returned begins anew	H3
The same career of wickedness and lust	I3
With their attendant ills Audacious man	J3
Defies the threats of the avenging sea	L
And to new shores and to new stars repeats	K3
The same sad tale of infamy and woe	L3
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And now of thee I think the just and brave	M3
The Father of the faithful and the sons	C
Thy honored name that bore Of thee I speak	K
Whom sitting thoughtful in the noontide shade	Y
Before thy humble cottage near the banks	N3
That gave thy flocks both rest and nourishment	G2
The minds ethereal of celestial guests	O3
With blessings greeted and of thee O son	F3
Of wise Rebecca how at eventide	G2
In Aran's valley sweet and by the well	P3
Where happy swains in friendly converse met	G2
Thou didst with Laban's daughter fall in love	Q3
Love that to exile long and suffering	R3
And to the odious yoke of servitude	G2
Thy patient soul a willing martyr led	G2
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Oh surely once for not with idle tales	Z
And shadows the Aonian song and voice	S3
Of Fame the eager list'ners feed once was	T3
This wretched earth more friendly to our race	B
Was more beloved and dear and golden flew	H3
The days that now so laden are with care	L2
Not that the milk in waves of purest white	G2
Gushed from the rocks and flowed along the vales	Z
Or that the tigers mingled with the sheep	U3
To the same fold were led or shepherd boys	V3
With playful wolves would frolic at the spring	R3
But of its own lot ignorant and all	Z2
The sufferings that were in store devoid	G2
Of care it lived a soft illusive veil	W3
Of error hid the stern realities	M
The cruel laws of heaven and of fate	G2
Life glided on with cheerful hope content	G2
And tranquil sought the haven of its rest	G2
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So lives in California's forests vast	G2
A happy race whose life blood is not drained	G2
By pallid care whose limbs are not by fierce	X3
Disease consumed the woods their food their homes	Y3
The hollow rock the streamlet of the vale	W3
Its waters furnishes and unforeseen	Z3
Dark death upon them steals Ah how unarmed	G2
Wise Nature's happy votaries are ye	L
Against our impious audacity	L
Our fierce indomitable love of gain	A4
Your shores your caves your quiet woods invades	B4
Your minds corrupts your bodies enervates	B4
And happiness a naked fugitive	N2
Before it drives to earth's remotest bounds	B4

Count Giacomo Leopardi

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