| It was an ancient Italian morning
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| With flies, poppies, wheat
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| The peasants looked like paintings
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| The sun, the Po and the heroic destinies
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| July one thousand nine hundred something
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| Suddenly from the dewy plain
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| How the high note of the tenor comes off
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| Francesco Baracca's airplane
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| The canvas bird vibrated strongly
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| Lightweight and fragile a sail
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| And he spiraled up in flight
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| Like a cheerful Romagna waltz
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| And from there the earth showed itself
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| Like a happy woman she opened up to him
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| Without fear and without reluctance
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| He discovered its sweet geometry
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| And there was Rimini there was Riccione
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| And basically the unexplored southern south
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| And in the North the roar of the cannon
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| As devastating as the flood
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| And he entered his soul and mind
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| That of his beautiful and unconscious Italy
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| And he suffered from jealousy woe to touch her woe
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| To take her away
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| And he flew down to play with fate
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| Youth is not afraid of death
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| It was not a duel, there was no cavalry
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| But a low blow from the infantry
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| And his life was already losing height
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| A firework, a comet
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| Like a wounded bird that falling
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| It becomes just feathers and wind and then silence
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| The poet says that by dying
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| The whole life is reviewed in a moment
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| Games, hopes, fears
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| The faces loved the friends the adventures
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| July one thousand nine hundred and eighteen
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| There was a man who lost everything
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| It is agrarian and proletarian Italy
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| He won the first ace in the air
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| Like a wounded bird that falling
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| It becomes just feathers and wind and then silence |