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Rh When we had come unto the fourth day, Gaddo

Threw himself down outstretched before my feet,

Saying, 'My father, why dost thou not help me?'

And there he died; and, as thou seest me,

I saw the three fall one by one, between

The fifth day and the sixth; whence I betook me,

Already blind, to groping over each,

And three days called them after they were dead;

Then hunger did what sorrow could not do."

When he had said this, with his eyes distorted,

The wretched skull resumed he with his teeth,

Which, as a dog's, upon the bone were strong.

Ah! Pisa, thou opprobium of the people

Of the fair land there where the Sì doth sound,

Since slow to punish thee thy neighbors are,

Let the Capraia and Gorgona move,

And make a hedge across the mouth of Arno,

That every person in thee it may drown!

For if Count Ugolino had the fame

Of having in thy castles thee betrayed,

Thou shouldst not on such cross have put his sons.

Guiltless of any crime, thou modern Thebes!

Their youth made Uguccione and Brigata,

And the other two my song doth name above!