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TO THE MARQUIS GINO CAPPONI	A
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I was mistaken my dear Gino Long	B
And greatly have I erred I fancied life	C
A vain and wretched thing and this our age	D
Now passing vainest silliest of all	E
Intolerable seemed and was such talk	F
Unto the happy race of mortals if	G
Indeed man ought or could be mortal called	H
'Twixt anger and surprise the lofty creatures laughed	I
Forth from the fragrant Eden where they dwell	J
Neglected or unfortunate they called me	K
Of joy incapable or ignorant	L
To think my lot the common lot of all	E
Mankind the partner in my misery	K
At length amid the odor of cigars	M
The crackling sound of dainty pastry and	N
The orders loud for ices and for drinks	O
'Midst clinking glasses and 'midst brandished spoons	P
The daily light of the gazettes flashed full	Q
On my dim eyes I saw and recognized	R
The public joy and the felicity	K
Of human destiny The lofty state	S
I saw and value of all human things	T
Our mortal pathway strewed with flowers I saw	U
How naught displeasing here below endures	V
Nor less I saw the studies and the works	W
Stupendous wisdom virtue knowledge deep	X
Of this our age From far Morocco to	Y
Cathay and from the Poles unto the Nile	Z
From Boston unto Goa on the track	A2
Of flying Fortune emulously panting	B2
The empires kingdoms dukedoms of the earth	C2
I saw now clinging to her waving locks	D2
Now to the end of her encircling boa	E2
Beholding this and o'er the ample sheets	F2
Profoundly meditating I became	G2
Of my sad blunder and myself ashamed	H2
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The age of gold the spindles of the Fates	I2
O Gino are evolving Every sheet	J2
In each variety of speech and type	K2
The splendid promise to the world proclaims	L2
From every quarter Universal love	M2
And iron roads and commerce manifold	N2
Steam types and cholera remotest lands	O2
Most distant nations will together bind	P2
Nor need we wonder if the pine or oak	Q2
Yield milk and honey or together dance	R2
Unto the music of the waltz So much	S2
The force already hath increased both of	M2
Alembics and retorts and of machines	T2
That vie with heaven in working miracles	U2
And will increase in times that are to come	V2
For evermore from better unto best	W2
Without a pause as in the past the race	X2
Of Shem and Ham and Japhet will progress	Y2
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And yet on acorns men will never feed	Z2
Unless compelled by hunger never will	A3
Hard iron lay aside Full oft indeed	Z2
They gold and silver will despise bills of	M2
Exchange preferring Often too the race	X2
Its generous hands with brothers' blood will stain	A
With fields of carnage filling Europe and	N
The other shore of the Atlantic sea	K
The new world that the old still nourishes	B3
As often as it sends its rival bands	O2
Of armed adventurers in eager quest	W2
Of pepper cinnamon or other spice	C3
Or sugar cane aught that ministers	D3
Unto the universal thirst for gold	N2
True worth and virtue modesty and faith	E3
And love of justice in whatever land	F3
From public business will be still estranged	G3
Or utterly humiliated and	N
O'erthrown condemned by Nature still	A3
To sink unto the bottom Insolence	H3
And fraud with mediocrity combined	P2
Will to the surface ever rise and reign	A
Authority and strength howe'er diffused	I3
However concentrated will be still	A3
Abused beneath whatever name concealed	J3
By him who wields them this the law by Fate	S
And nature written first in adamant	L
Nor can a Volta with his lightnings nor	K3
A Davy cancel it nor England with	L3
Her vast machinery nor this our age	D
With all its floods of Leading Articles	U2
The good man ever will be sad the wretch	S2
Will keep perpetual holiday against	M3
All lofty souls both worlds will still be armed	N3
Conspirators true honor be assailed	O3
By calumny and hate and envy still	A3
The weak will be the victim of the strong	B
The hungry man upon the rich will fawn	A
Beneath whatever form of government	L
Alike at the Equator and the Poles	P3
So will it be while man on earth abides	Q3
And while the sun still lights him on his way	R3
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These signs and tokens of the ages past	S3
Must of necessity their impress leave	T3
Upon our brightly dawning age of gold	N2
Because society from Nature still	A3
Receives a thousand principles and aims	L2
Diverse discordant which to reconcile	Z
No wit or power of man hath yet availed	O3
Since first our race illustrious was born	A
Nor will avail or treaty or gazette	U3
In any age however wise or strong	B
But in things more important how complete	J2
Ne'er seen till now will be our happiness	V3
More soft from day to day our garments will	A3
Become of woollen or of silk Their rough	W3
Attire the husbandman and smith will cast	S3
Aside will swathe in cotton their rough hides	Q3
And with the skins of beavers warm their backs	X3
More serviceable more attractive too	Y
Will be our carpets and our counterpanes	X3
Our curtains sofas tables and our chairs	X3
Our beds and their attendant furniture	Y3
Will a new grace unto our chambers lend	Z3
And dainty forms of kettles and of pans	X3
On our dark kitchens will their lustre shed	A4
From Paris unto Calais and from there	B4
To London and from there to Liverpool	C4
More rapid than imagination can	A
Conceive will be the journey nay the flight	D4
While underneath the ample bed of Thames	X3
A highway will be made immortal work	E4
That should have been completed years ago	F4
Far better lighted and perhaps as safe	G4
At night as now they are will be the lanes	X3
And unfrequented streets of Capitals	X3
Perhaps the main streets of the smaller towns	X3
Such privileges such a happy lot	H4
Kind heaven reserves unto the coming race	X3
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How fortunate are they whom as I write	D4
Naked and whimpering in her arms receives	X3
The midwife They those longed for days may hope	I4
To see when after careful studies we	K
Shall know and every nursling shall imbibe	J4
That knowledge with the milk of the dear nurse	X3
How many hundred weight of salt and how	K4
Much flesh how many bushels too of flour	Y3
His native town in every month consumes	X3
How many births and deaths in every year	L4
The parish priest inscribes when by the aid	M4
Of mighty steam that every second prints	X3
Its millions hill and dale and ocean's vast	S3
Expanse e'en as we see a flock of cranes	X3
A rial that suddenly the day obscure will with Gazettes be overrun	A
Gazettes of the great Universe the life	C
And soul sole fount of wisdom and of wit	N4
To this and unto every coming age	D
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E'en as a child who carefully constructs	X3
Of little sticks and leaves an edifice	X3
In form of temple palace or of tower	Y3
And soon as he beholds the work complete	J2
The impulse feels the structure to destroy	O4
Because the self same sticks and leaves he needs	X3
To carry out some other enterprise	X3
So Nature every work of hers however	Y3
It may delight us with its excellence	X3
No sooner sees unto perfection brought	P4
Than she proceeds to pull it all to pieces	X3
For other structures using still the parts	X3
And vainly seeks the human race itself	Q4
Or others from the cruel sport to save	R4
The cause of which is hidden from its sight	D4
Forever though a thousand means it tries	X3
With skilful hand devising remedies	X3
For cruel Nature child invincible	S4
Our efforts laughs to scorn and still its own	A
Caprices carries out without a pause	X3
Destroying and creating for its sport	T4
And hence a various endless family	K
Of ills incurable and sufferings	X3
Oppresses the frail mortal doomed to death	U4
Irreparably hence a hostile force	X3
Destructive smites him from within without	V4
On every side perpetual e'en from	V2
The day of birth and wearies and exhausts	X3
Itself untiring till he drops at last	S3
By the inhuman mother crushed and killed	W4
Those crowning miseries O gentle friend	Z3
Of this our mortal life old age and death	U4
E'en then commencing when the infant lip	X4
The tender breast doth press that life instils	X3
This happy nineteenth century I think	Y4
Can no more help than could the ninth or tenth	Z4
Nor will the coming ages more than this	X3
Indeed if we may be allowed to	Y

Count Giacomo Leopardi

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