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THE INFINITE Giacomo Leopardi

Always to me beloved was this lonely hillside
And the hedgerow creeping over and always hiding                                                           
The distances, the horizon's furthest reaches.                                                                    
But as I sit and gaze, there is an endless                                                                                   
Space still beyond, there is a more than mortal                                                                       
Silence spread out to the last depth of peace,                                                                        
Which in my thought I shape until my heart.                                                                         
Scarcely can hide a fear. And as the wind                                                                            
Comes through the copses sighing to my ears,                                                                      
The infinite silence and the passing voice                                                                              
I must compare: remembering the seasons,                                                                                                                                
Quiet in dead eternity, and the present,
Living and sounding still. And into this                                                                              
Immensity my thought sinks ever drowning,                                                                   
And it is sweet to shipwreck in such a sea.