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Se lamentar augelli, o verdi fronde mover soavemente a l'aura estiva, o roco mormorar di lucide onde s'ode d'una fiorita et fresca riva, là 'v'io seggia d'amor pensoso et scriva, lei che 'l ciel ne mostrò, terra n'asconde, veggio, et odo, et intendo ch'anchor viva di sí lontano a' sospir' miei risponde. «Deh, perché inanzi 'l tempo ti consume? - mi dice con pietate - a che pur versi degli occhi tristi un doloroso fiume? Di me non pianger tu, ché' miei dí fersi morendo eterni, et ne l'interno lume, quando mostrai de chiuder, gli occhi apersi».
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- by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 279 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl August Förster (1784 - 1841) ; composed by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg.
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- ENG English (A. S. Kline) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Francisque Reynard) , "Canzone CCLXXIX Se lamentar augelli"
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This text was added to the website: 2003-11-20
Line count: 14
Word count: 95
If the birds lament, or the green leaves move gently in the summer breeze, or soft murmurs of the clear waves are heard from a fresh flowering river-bank, where I sit thinking of love and writing, then I see her whom heaven shows, earth hides, and I hear and understand that she still lives, though far away, responding to my sighs. ‘Ah, why are you so aged before your time?’ she asks with pity, ‘why does a sad stream always flow from your grieving eyes? Don’t weep for me, my days, in dying, became eternal ones, and when the light within seemed to darken, my eyes opened.’
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Francesco Petrarca (1304 - 1374), no title, appears in Canzoniere (Rerum vulgarium fragmenta) , in 2. Rime In morte di Madonna Laura, no. 279
This text was added to the website: 2015-03-10
Line count: 14
Word count: 107