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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Africa Orrenda + +Author: Mario Rapisardi + +Release Date: November 26, 2008 [EBook #27334] + +Language: Italian + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFRICA ORRENDA *** + + + + +Produced by Carlo Traverso, Emanuela Piasentini and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by The Internet Archive) + + + + + + + + + + AFRICA ORRENDA + + + + + AFRICA ORRENDA + + VERSI + + DI + + MARIO RAPISARDI + + + + + [Illustrazione: Onestà e Lavoro. N. G.] + + + + + CATANIA + + NICCOLÒ GIANNOTTA, EDITORE + _Via Lincoln, 271-273-275 e Via Manzoni, 77._ + + 1896. + + + + + PROPRIETÀ LETTERARIA + + + + + CATANIA--Tip. Lorenzo Rizzo, piazza Spirito Santo, 19-20-21-22. + + + + +PER L'ECCIDIO DI DÒGALI + + +[Illustrazione] + + + Giù dai ghermiti scanni, + Razza maligna, inetta, + Che fra venali inganni + Pompeggiandoti abjetta, + Raccogli infami frutti + Dal disonor di tutti! + + Ah! non bastò di questa + Patria incestare il seno? + La veneranda testa + Premer di giogo osceno? + Offrir nudo il materno + Fianco al barbaro scherno? + + Ond'ella, a regnar nata, + Con tremulo ginocchio + Segue, putta spregiata, + Il tenebroso cocchio, + Su cui breve fortuna + Due manigoldi aduna. + + Misera, e invan tu speri + Con civettar codardo + Da regj masnadieri + Impetrar tozzo o sguardo: + Ahi! con viltà e misfatti + Onta e miseria accatti, + + E stragi. Oh desolati + Campi! Oh cori d'eroi + Nell'alta ombra gittati + Non da voi, non da voi, + Avide di rapine + Ferrigne orde abissine, + + Anzi da te, nefando + Vecchio, che sol per cieca + Libidin di comando + L'italo onor con bieca + Mente fidando ai ladri. + Le fiche a Italia squadri. + + Qual dall'immane insulto + Pregio o vendetta? Arcigna + Guata Albione; occulto + L'ire fomenta e ghigna + Il dèmone sinistro, + Che la Sprea move e l'Istro. + + Dal vigilato covo + L'orgoglio ibrido freme, + E al cor d'Italia novo + Tesoro e sangue spreme: + D'orbe fidanze gravi + Salpan ferrate navi. + + Brillan su la guernita + Tolda gl'itali figli, + Cui tarda espor la vita + Ai perfidi perigli, + Che coi predoni a gara + La terra e il ciel prepara. + + Volate, o generosi + Figli, all'infausto lido; + Turbate i sanguinosi + Ozj allo stuolo infido, + Che su la strage inulta + Ebbro di sangue esulta. + + Vincete. Oh scarsa, incerta + Vittoria! Ecco, dal grembo + Della sabbia deserta + Strano improvviso nembo + Sorge, e in ferina guerra + Il vessil nostro atterra. + + Voi là nel baluardo + Ultimo accolti, invano + Con ansioso sguardo + Tentate il mar lontano, + Se a voi pochi e mal vivi + Patrio soccorso arrivi. + + Ma per l'immensa arsura + Delle voraci arene + Solo la Febbre, oscura + Liberatrice, viene; + E in voi dall'ignea bocca + Funesti aliti scocca. + + Ahi, nè certezza o speme + D'onore o d'util nostro + Lenirà l'ore estreme + Del sagrificio vostro, + Non le cure affannose + Delle imprecanti spose. + + Ben presso al limitare + Della fredda quíete, + Sorger fra cielo e mare + Un'alta Ombra vedrete, + Squallida il seno, indoma + Ancor che oppressa, Roma: + + E non per questo, o amati + Petti, pietosa grida, + Reggendo a infaticati + Studj con alma fida, + Il braccio armaste e il core + Di ferro e di valore! + + Ardea nelle capaci + Menti un'altera idea: + Piombar serrati, audaci + Su la grifagna rea, + Che l'ultima latina + Terra aduggiando inquina. + + Oh per le Giulie vette + Pugne! Oh piani fumanti + Delle nostre vendette! + Oh entusiasmi santi + Di dar la vita a patto + Del fraterno riscatto! + + Popol, cui spada e mente + Da servitù redime, + Non peregrina gente + Mercanteggiando opprime; + Ma libertà, per cui + Vive, fa vita altrui. + + Cada chi primo in petto + L'obliqua smania accolse, + Onde al natio ricetto + I vostri animi tolse, + E li scagliò in lontane + Piagge a conquiste vane! + + Lui non amor di fama, + Non furor d'alte imprese, + Ma insidiosa brama + Di rei traffichi accese; + Nè l'empia sete or langue + Per mareggiar di sangue. + + Ma se ancor nei gentili + Petti la patria spira, + Se da computi vili + Non è sedotta l'ira, + Che in un'ora d'ebbrezza + Catene e scettri spezza; + + Se non per gioco ho cinta + La mia terza corona, + Se la mia gloria estinta + Non è tutta, nè suona + Obbrobrio il nome mio; + Se Roma ancor son io, + + Troppo alle tue volpine + Arti, o fatal, durai; + Sopra le mie rovine + Assai ghignasti, assai + Fu il danno e la vergogna: + Carnefice, alla gogna! + +_(Genn. '87)._ + + +[Illustrazione] + + + + +ESPIAZIONE + + +[Illustrazione] + + +I. + + Chi è, disser, costui, che solitario, altero + Sul nostro capo il verso empio saetta, + E su la gloriosa luce del nostro impero + L'ombra sua getta? + + Chi è costui, che i tetri sogni sferrando a volo, + Come falchi addestrati in noi li avventa; + E di amor, di giustizia all'affamato stuolo + Parlar si attenta? + + Torbido evocatore di pazze ombre, l'abisso + O non vede o non cura a cui cammina: + Con l'occhio, acre di febbre, all'orizzonte fisso, + Ecco, ei ruina! + + E noi frattanto in aurea rete impigliamo il biondo + Amore e l'affoghiamo entro al bicchiere; + Noi ci tiriamo dietro inguinzagliato il mondo + Come un levriere. + + Che importa, se al nostro uscio Lazzaro derelitto + Frignando invidj a' nostri cani il pranzo? + Avrà, quand'ei non sia ad alcun Fascio ascritto, + Pur qualche avanzo. + + Che ci fa, se a quest'ora al suon della mitraglia + Nel ribelle Tigrè riddi la morte? + Terran le nostre schiere, in qual che sia battaglia, + Fronte alla sorte! + + Pugnate, eroici petti, cadete; ad una voce + Noi gridiam «Viva!» e alziam colmo il bicchiere; + Le vostre salme avranno la medaglia e la croce + Di cavaliere. + + L'onor della bandiera val bene una tal guerra; + Chiedon vendetta i nostri morti; e poi + L'ufficio glorioso d'incivilir la terra + L'abbiamo noi! + + Gli Abissini, si sa, son predoni, selvaggi, + E con loro bisogna esser maneschi; + Trucidar donne, vecchi, fanciulli; arder villaggi... + Viva Radetzki! + + In ogni caso, giova a noi, spiriti fini, + Mandar la calda giovinaglia a spasso: + La guerra a chi la plètora ha d'odj cittadini + È un buon salasso. + + Urla, profeta nero, i tuoi strambotti audaci + All'egre ciurme ch'aízzando vai: + Noi delibiamo intanto con labbra arse da' baci + Reno e Tokai! + + +[Illustrazione] + + +II. + + Non ei però si arresta. La pensierosa faccia + Torce da lor, qual da bruttura, altrove, + Mormorando con voce ch'è fede, e par minaccia: + Eppur si muove! + + Diritto, nella tragica sera che preme il mondo, + Strali e sogni vibrando all'età rea, + Passa incontaminato tra 'l bulicame immondo, + Non uomo, Idea. + + Volano a lui dintorno dagli spazj stellati + Corruscanti fantasmi, ignee chimere, + Fronti di lauro cinte, petti di palma ornati, + Falangi austere. + + Ah! non hai tu, regina, cui Dante un trono eresse + Sovra i popoli tutti, a Dio vicino, + Tu, nel cui core eterno di tutto il mondo lesse + Vico il destino; + + Tu, santa, cui Mazzini invocava in ginocchio + Nel freddo esilio; tu ch'a' più begli anni + Schiacciavi, del Nizzardo sotto al fulmineo cocchio, + Sette tiranni; + + Non hai tu, donna, or ora a turpi sgherri in braccio + Inebbriati di poter maligno, + A chi diceati: «Pensa!» gittato in volto il ghiaccio + Del tuo sogghigno? + + Non hai tu, che d'oltraggio le pure anime cibi, + Negato il pane al Giusto, il culto al Vero, + Per onorar l'Inganno, per ingrassar gli Scribi + Del vitupero? + + Difeso col tuo nome, del tuo pallio coverto + Chi fa dell'are tue bisca e bordello? + Chi, più che penna o spada, è a maneggiare esperto + Il grimaldello? + + Profuso oro a' bertoni d'Astrea fatta baldracca? + Procacciato a Bonturo onor divino? + Scolpito in marmi e in bronzi (oh Giusti!) la guarnacca + Di Truffaldino? + + Non hai tu, barcheggiando su le calde fiumane + Del pianto, druda delle altrui vendette, + Scagliato ai derelitti, che ti chiedeano pane, + Piombo e manette? + + Non hai, madre, sofferto ch'a' tuoi sacri captivi + Fosse un raggio di sole anco vietato? + Non hai tu su la fossa dei tuoi martiri vivi + Cancaneggiato? + + Ed ecco, or nell'ecclissi del tuo giudizio, alata + Furia al tuo capo la Giustizia romba; + E l'Espiazione, vermiglia aquila irata, + Sopra a te piomba! + + Oh fragor d'improvvisi sdegni e d'immani lutti, + Dal ciel, dal mar, dalle cruente arene! + Oh suon misterioso di palpitanti flutti: + Ecco, ella viene! + + Sostano a' campi avari, alle officine, intorno, + L'opere in minacciosa alta quíete; + L'austero Etna nevoso, che si arrubina al giorno, + Viene, ripete. + + Dalle reggie pollute, dai trafficati altari + Sorgono al casto cielo ululi immensi; + Mandano le severe Alpi a' bollenti mari + Fraterni assensi. + + O monti, asceti assorti nello splendor del Nume, + O flutto uman cui la speranza investe, + O dei cieli e dei cuori interminabil lume, + Voi mentireste? + +_(Genn. '96)._ + + +[Illustrazione] + + + + +DOPO LA SCONFITTA + + +[Illustrazione] + + +I. + + Finchè briaca alla caterva sozza, + Che nell'obbrobrio e nel dolor l'atterra, + Porge Italia le groppe, ella che mozza + Agli apostoli il grido e i polsi inferra; + + Finchè il turpe delirio in lei non langue + Di rei conquisti e di vendette oscene, + E tributo alle nostre esauste vene + Osa chiedere ancor d'oro e di sangue; + + Finchè la Frode, ire affilando e spade, + Di mercate lusinghe il vulgo impregna, + E all'Abissin, cui la capanna invade, + L'infamia nostra e il nostro eccidio insegna; + + Finchè, tra un baccanal d'anime guerce, + La Sconfitta e la Resa in Campidoglio; + L'Onore in ceppi, il Vituperio in soglio, + Ludibrio il Dritto, la Giustizia merce; + + Lungi da questo sciagurato suolo, + Lungi dall'età rea sorga il poeta: + Liriche strofe, liberate il volo + A ciel più puro, a regíon più lieta. + + A che turbar dei bellicosi ladri + L'animo pio con misurati pianti? + O cari petti giovanili infranti, + È troppo che su voi piangan le madri! + + +[Illustrazione] + + +II. + + Ove andrem noi? Sangue e miseria intorno + E fango. Oh ferrea notte + D'Europa! Oh immani lotte + Di truffatori! E ancor lontano è il giorno. + + Gitta la vaticana Idra la squama + Fra' mal guardati avelli, + E gl'incauti ribelli + Affascinando, il nostro esizio trama. + + La jena di Stambùl, di terror folle, + Nel sanguinoso mare + Galleggia, ove affogare + Invan l'inglese mercator la volle. + + Ecco, il deforme orso del Volga accampa + Sul provocato lido, + E con geloso strido + Porge alla rea l'insanguinata zampa. + + Ma la francesca Libertà bastarda, + Che, le adipose cuoja + Date in custodia al boja, + Tutto vende ghignando e tutto infarda, + + Indarno al Papa ed allo Czar gl'immondi + Quarti lambisce abjetta: + Giù nell'ampia belletta, + Ond'ora ingrassa, è forza pur che affondi. + + Squassa il Leone castiglian la giuba, + E ruggendo si scaglia + Ove in armi travaglia + La invan contesa Libertà di Cuba. + + All'auree vene del Trasvallo intanto + Calano in tetri giri + Gli europei vampiri, + Che di civile sapíenza han vanto. + + O Civiltà, se messe altra non dài + Che di sì tristi allori; + Se agli aspettanti cori + Fuor che stragi e miseria offrir non sai; + + O che le armene piagge, o che la vetta + Dell'Amba orrida innostri, + Co' tuoi bugiardi mostri, + Perfida Civiltà, sii maledetta! + + +[Illustrazione] + + +III. + + Oh agreste pace, candido + Regno dei buoni! Come fiamma viva + Agitata dal turbine, + Su l'età sfatta il gran Giudizio arriva. + + E tu prima il benefico + Passo n'udrai, tu dal giaciglio fondo + Sorgerai prima, o triplice + Roma, cuore d'Italia, amor del mondo. + + Ecco, ove un tempo il bufalo + Torvo sguazzava, e tra paduli morti + Serpean le Febbri, il florido + Lavoro avviva di Feronia gli orti. + + Quanto vigor di giovani + Cori, asserviti all'Ignoranza e al Fasto, + La burbanzosa Ignavia + Gittava all'Ozio e alla Lussuria in pasto; + + Quanto tesor di valide + Braccia, in miserie apriche, in odj bui, + Tingea con folli audacie + D'innocuo sangue il vituperio altrui; + + Quanti all'altar cadeano + D'un bronzeo nume in sanguinose gare, + O di miseria indocili + Fuggían maledicendo il patrio mare, + + Oggi a' nuraghi inospiti. + All'ardue Sile, alle insalubri chiane + Un salutar diffondono + Fiume di redentrici opere umane; + + Che, propagate in fervidi + Commerci, ignari di gelosi insulti, + Fan che redento a' secoli + L'immenso core della Terra esulti. + + Stendi l'oblio su l'umile + Mia fossa, o generosa itala prole; + Ma sul tuo capo indomito + L'alta speranza mia splenda col sole! + +_(Marzo '96)._ + + +[Illustrazione] + + + + +Prezzo di questo opuscolo Cent. 70 + + +OPERE DELLO STESSO AUTORE + +vendibili + +NELLA LIBRERIA EDITRICE DI NICCOLÒ GIANNOTTA + + + =Palingenesi=, Canti X, seconda edizione - Milano, G. 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