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Juvenilia.

XXXVII “Non son quell'io che già d'amiche cene”

I am not he who amid wine cups flowing

Rouses to joy the festive board of friends:

Heavy with bitter weariness is going

The time that to my mind no banquet sends.

Anger alone is that fierce life bestowing

Over whose board my heart all ravenous bends.

O fair green years when brightest hopes were growing