If it were so, then I should never have seen Italy again; never fought for her—which was the great wish of my life: but then, too, I never should have seen her sink into ignominy.
Contemplating his potential death at sea, Garibaldi expresses his life's greatest desire to fight for Italy and his fear of her decline.
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