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

Giacomo Leopardi

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