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Title: Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stieler, Karl, 1842-1885 Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Antonio, conte, 1843-1913, former owner. IU-R Paulus, Eduard, 1837-1907 Kaden, Woldemar, 1838-1907 Trollope, Frances Eleanor, d. 1913 Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
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Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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tims of the man-killing breath of the swamps. This is modern slavery, and aharder slavery than the ancient. In every furrow of Saturnian soilThere grows a grewsome weed;—its name is Death.When ncath an over-flood of dazzling light,The land lies sad amidst the summer days,A thousand reapers sweep down on the plainDriven by cruel hunger from their homes,And wander oer it like to banished men.Their deep black eyes are dimmed by the foul breathOf poisonous airs that stagnate all around.And not one joyous bird-note greets the ear,No song of home from out the far Abruzzi,Revives the melancholy exiles soul.In silence do they reap the yellow grainFor some unknown possessor ; and at lengthWhen all the weary labour is performedIn silence they depart, even as they came.But if perchance they hear the well-known tonesOf their own native cornamusa sound, Their hearts swell high with yearning for their home.—Aleardi. In the time of the Roman Republic they were slaves hands which tilled the soil,
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*3YI HE OF HJJHOB THE NORTHERN WANDERER IN THE ROMAN CAMP AG NA. 295

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