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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - To Telesius Of Cosenza.

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Telesio, il telo.     Telesius, the arrow from thy bow             Midmost his band of sophists slays that high             Tyrant of souls that think; he cannot fly:             While Truth soars free, loosed by the self-same blow.     Proud lyres with thine immortal praises glow,             Smitten by bards elate with victory:             Lo, thine own Cavalcante, stormfully             Lightning, still strikes the fortress of the foe!     Good Gaieta bedecks our saint serene             With robes translucent, light-irradiate,             Restoring her to all her natural sheen;     The while my tocsin at the temple-gate             Of the wide universe proclaims her queen,             Pythia of first and last ordained by fate.

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