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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - A Prophecy Of Judgment. No. 2.The Doom Of The Impious.

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La scuola inimicissima.     You sect most adverse to the good and true,             Degenerate from your origin divine,             Pastured on lies and shadows by the line             Of Thais, Sinon, Judas, Homer! You,     Thus saith the Spirit, when the retinue             Of saints with Christ returns on earth to shine,             When the fifth angel's vial pours condign             Vengeance with awful ire and torments due,--     You shall be girt with gloom; your lips profane,             Disloyal tongues, and savage teeth shall grind             And gnash with fury fell and anger vain:     In Malebolge your damned souls confined             On fiery marle, for increment of pain,             Shall see the saved rejoice with mirth of mind.

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