Abitator del mondo.
Ye dwellers on this world, to the first Mind
Exalt your eyes; and ye shall see how low
Vile Tyranny, wearing the glorious show
Of nobleness and worth, keeps you confined.
Then look at proud Hypocrisy, entwined
With lies and snares, who once taught men to know
The fear of God. Next to the Sophists go,
Traitors to thought and reason, jugglers blind.
Keen Socrates to quell the Sophists came:
To quell the Tyrants, Cato just and rough:
To quell the Hypocrites, Christ, heaven's own flame.
But to unmask fraud, sacrilege, and lies,
Or boldly rush on death, is not enough;
Unless we all taste God, made inly wise.
The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - An Exhortation To Mankind
Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
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Poem topics: death, fear, heaven, world, wise, mind, flame, blind, taste, reason, hypocrisy, thought, worth, god, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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