When the moon is born in the east,
And the white rooftops drift asleep
Under the heaped-up light,
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''The land of the prophets, The land of the simple, The chewers of tobacco, the dealers in drug? '' La terra dei profeti, La terra dei semplici, I masticatori di tabacco, i trafficanti di droga?
The pathetic state in which the people of poet's land live has been described with a heavy heart in a touching manner.