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METASTASIO.
Dunque si sfoga in pianto.
IN tears, the heart opprest with grief
Gives language to its woes;
In tears, its fulness finds relief,
When rapture's tide o'erflows:
Who then unclouded bliss would seek
On this terrestrial sphere;
When e'en Delight can only speak,
Like Sorrow—in a tear?
