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Pro Patria

Lullabier aka Andrea Vascellari
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La poesia originale di Edgar Lee Masters
PRO PATRIAKNOWLT HOHEIMER
Ricordo ancora l'attimo in cui la pallottola mi ha trafitto.
Forse era meglio venire arrestato per quel vecchio furto invece di arruolarmi.
Forse era meglio stare in cella piuttosto che sotto terra.
E ora sopra di me c'è una lapide con la scritta "Caduto per la patria".
Che cosa vorrà dire?
I was the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
When I felt the bullet enter my heart
I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail
For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary,
Instead of running away and joining the army.
Rather a thousand times the county jail
Than to lie under this marble figure with wings,
And this granite pedestal Bearing the words, “Pro Patria.”
What do they mean, anyway?


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