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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - The Sage On Earth.

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Sciolto e legato.     Bound and yet free, companioned and alone,             Loud mid my silence, I confound my foes:             Men think me fool in this vile world of woes;             God's wisdom greets me sage from heaven's high throne.     With wings on earth oppressed aloft I bound;             My gleeful soul sad bonds of flesh enclose:             And though sometimes too great the burden grows,             These pinions bear me upward from the ground.     A doubtful combat proves the warrior's might:             Short is all time matched with eternity:             Nought than a pleasing burden is more light.     My brows I bind with my love's effigy,             Sure that my joyous flight will soon be sped             Where without speech my thoughts shall all be read.

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