The Gleaning Woman Statue of Sapri 2021 .......

The much-discussed statue of the gleaner of Sapri 2021…

landing of Carlo Pisacane

They were three hundred, they were young and strong,
and they are dead!
I went to glean in the morning,
when I saw a boat in the middle of the sea:
it was a steamboat,
and it raised a tricolor flag.
It stopped at the island of Ponza,
it stayed a while and then returned;
it returned and came ashore.
They landed with weapons and did not make war on us.
They were three hundred, they were young and strong,
and they are dead!
They landed with weapons and did not make war on us,
but they bowed down to kiss the earth.
I looked at them one by one:
they all had a tear and a smile.
They called them thieves who had come out of their dens,
but they did not take away even a loaf of bread;
and I heard them utter a single cry:
—"We have come to die for our shore." —
They were three hundred, they were young and strong,
and they are dead!
With blue eyes and golden hair
a young man walked before them.
I grew bold and, taking him by the hand,
I asked him:—"Where are you going, handsome captain?"—
He looked at me and answered:—"O my sister,
I am going to die for my beautiful homeland." —
My whole heart trembled,
and I could not say to him:—"May the Lord help you!"—
They were three hundred, they were young and strong,
and they are dead!
That day I forgot to glean,
and I followed them:
twice they clashed with the gendarmes
and once and the other they were disarmed.
But when they were at the walls of Certosa,
trumpets and drums were heard;
and amidst the smoke and gunfire and sparks,
more than a thousand fell upon them.
They were three hundred, they were young and strong,
and they are dead!
They were three hundred, and they would not flee:
they seemed like three thousand and they wanted to die;
but they wanted to die with iron in their hands,
and blood ran over the plain before them.
As long as I saw them fight, I prayed for them,
but at one point I fainted, and I looked no more:
I no longer saw among them
those blue eyes and that golden hair.
They were three hundred, they were young and strong,
and they are dead!
(Luigi Mercantini)

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