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What will the stream become in its lengthened course, if it be so turbid at its source?

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Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (January 3, 1698 – April 12, 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

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Alternative Names: Metastasio • Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi • Pietro Antonio Trapassi Gallastri • Pietro Antonio Domenico Buonaventura Metastasio • Pedro Metastase • Pietro Metastase • Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi • Pietro Trapassi • Pedro Metastasio • Pedro Matastasio

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Qual diverrà quel fiume,
Nel lungo suo cammino,
Se al fonte ancor vicino
É torbido così?

Sai, che piegar si vede
Il docile arboscello,
Che vince allor che cede
Dei turbini al furor.

In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and to fix his course. To the pilgrim often a single footstep suffices to enable him to find his way across the bewildering plain.

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