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IN THE METRE AND TRIPLE RHYME OF THE ORIGINAL;

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HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1862.

"Lettor, tu vedi ben com' io innalzo La mia materia, e però con più arte Non ti maravigliar s' io la rincalzo."

PURGATORIO, ix. 70—72.

PRINTED BY J. E. ADLARD, BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, E.C.

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FAIR ITALY, HOW SAD HAS BEEN THY STORY!

OF OLD THY CIVIL FACTIONS FORGED FOR THEE THE STRANGER'S YOKE, THE ROD OF TYRANNY, PURPLED THY PLAINS AND MADE THY RIVERS GORY. HOW LONG AND GRIEVOUS WAS THY PURGATORY! BUT IT IS PAST:-FREE AND UNITED NOW, AMONG THE NATIONS THOU HAST REAR'D THY BROW, DECK'D WITH THE WREATH OF GARIBALDI'S GLORY. ILLUSTRIOUS CHIEF!-IF DANTE FROM THE SKIES

LOOKS DOWNWARD ON THE LAND HE LOVED SO WELL, IN THEE THAT VIRTUOUS HUNTER HE DESCRIES WHO CHASED THE SHE-WOLF TO HER NATIVE HELL: WHILE ITALY, FOR FREEDOM'S BATTLE WON,

HAILS THEE HER NOBLEST, BEST, AND BRAVEST SON.

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