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The Sonnets Of Tommaso Campanella - To Tobia Adami.

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Portando in man.     Holding the cynic lantern in your hand,             Through Europe, Egypt, Asia, you have passed,             Till at Ausonia's feet you find at last             That Cyclops' cave, where I, to darkness banned,     In light eternal forge for you the brand             Against Abaddon, who hath overcast             The truth and right, Adami, made full fast             Unto God's glory by our steadfast band.     Go, smite each sophist, tyrant, hypocrite!             Girt with the arms of the first Wisdom, free             Your country from the frauds that cumber it!     Swerve not: 'twere sin. How good, how great the praise             Of him who turns youth, strength, soul, energy,             Unto the dayspring of the eternal rays!

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