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Tancas Serradas a Muru (Walls are Encircling the Land)
Francesco Ignazio Mannu (Sardinia, ca. 1795)
Translation: Remo Bodei (taken from http://www.osvaldogolijov.com/wd39t.htm)

Walls are encircling the land
Seized with greed and in haste,
If Heaven was on Earth
They would grab it too!