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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - The Present.

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Convien al secol nostro.     Black robes befit our age. Once they were white;             Next many-hued; now dark as Afric's Moor,             Night-black, infernal, traitorous, obscure,             Horrid with ignorance and sick with fright.     For very shame we shun all colours bright,             Who mourn our end--the tyrants we endure,             The chains, the noose, the lead, the snares, the lure--             Our dismal heroes, our souls sunk in night.     Black weeds again denote that extreme folly             Which makes us blind, mournful, and woe-begone:             For dusk is dear to doleful melancholy;     Nathless fate's wheel still turns: this raiment dun             We shall exchange hereafter for the holy             Garments of white in which of yore we shone.

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