Come, let us devise an adornment
That we shall give one to the other,
In the future when we two poor children
Shall be monarchs and finders of treasure.
I have thought of a necklace for you:
Pearls, harvested far in the East,
Pearls, which with nacre and opal 
Are resplendent with sudden, concealed lights;
The rich rows of these pearls shall
Culminate in a wonderful
Star of laughing rubies for your bosom,
Which eagerly serve your beauty
And at their centre hold a disk
Upon which all the loveliest legends
Shine in delicate work upon old gold:
Aphrodite who, moistened by seafoam,
Wafts forth from the wave. The goddess would
Bear the lineaments of your own beauty.

I, on the other hand, wish for 
A tall glass vase of slender form.
Its sides must shimmer sea-green
And flicker like sunshine by the Lido,
In collusion with the light that plays iridescently 
With a hundred colours every second.
The best glass-blower in Murano
Shall create for us this wonder of all glassworks,
He shall labour himself raw day and night
Until wondrous colours shall bloom for him like a dream,
And from the blazing of his richest dreams
The marvellous glass shall flow forth.
Then on warm evenings like today
The chalice shall sound with a wondrous ringing
And we two shall listen and be silent
Until out of the ringing songs arise,
Songs that, like fables of unknown times,
Shall glide forth in long measures, foreign and beautiful,
[That] shall wrap our souls deeply in magical happiness,
And grant the wishes of every shyest yearning.
Do you hear, Gina?  Do you not hear? -- From the shore
The melodies are already wafting hither;
Already in sudden sheaves the thousandfold
Colours of our chalice are sparkling!

Over Il Redentore hangs, fading,
Ripe and heavy, the sun, glowing blood-red,
The laguna shines forth in great
Fiery fields, blooms in red roses,
Celebrates the richest feasts of all colours,
Floods us quiet guests with splendour.
No, the glass-blower shall not bother himself,
Look, here you see my vase glowing!
Somewhere in the blue sea yonder
We shall also find your necklace.