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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Prophecy Of Judgment. No. 1.The Reign Of Antichrist.

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Mentre l'acquila invola.     While yet the eagle preys, and growls the bear;             While roars the lion; while the crow defies             The lamb who raised our race above the skies;             While yet the dove laments to the deaf air;     While, mixed with goodly wheat, darnel and tare             Within the field of human nature rise;--             Let that ungodly sect, profanely wise,             That scorns our hope, feed, fatten, and beware!     Soon comes the day when those grim giants fell,             Famed through the world, dyed deep with sanguine hue,             Whom with feigned flatteries you applaud, shall be     Swept from the earth, and sunk in horrid Hell,             Girt round with flames, to weep and wail with you,             In doleful dungeons everlastingly.

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