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Sonnet On Approaching Italy

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I reached the Alps: the soul within me burned,     Italia, my Italia, at thy name:     And when from out the mountain's heart I came     And saw the land for which my life had yearned,     I laughed as one who some great prize had earned:     And musing on the marvel of thy fame     I watched the day, till marked with wounds of flame     The turquoise sky to burnished gold was turned.     The pine-trees waved as waves a woman's hair,     And in the orchards every twining spray     Was breaking into flakes of blossoming foam:     But when I knew that far away at Rome     In evil bonds a second Peter lay,     I wept to see the land so very fair.     TURIN.

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