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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - The Price Of Freedom.

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D' Italia in Grecia.     From Rome to Greece, from Greece to Libya's sand,             Yearning for liberty, just Cato went;             Nor finding freedom to his heart's content,             Sought it in death, and died by his own hand.     Wise Hannibal, when neither sea nor land             Could save him from the Roman eagles, rent             His soul with poison from imprisonment;             And a snake's tooth cut Cleopatra's band.     In this way died one valiant Maccabee;             Brutus feigned madness; prudent Solon hid             His sense; and David, when he feared Gath's king.     Thus when the Mystic found that Jonah's sea             Was yawning to engulf him, what he did             He gave to God--a wise man's offering.

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