もし | もし君の慈悲深い言葉を

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sometimes misattributed to Eva Cattermole Mancini, Contessa Lara (1849 - 1896) and by Eugenio Mancini

Translation © by Naoyuki Okada

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG JPN

Se un tuo pietoso accento
dovrò per sempre desiare in van...
Se m'è negato imprimerti
ardente un bacio sulla bianca man...

Deh! Non fuggirmi,
deh! non fuggirmi almeno...
E de'tuoi sguardi al magico poter
sorrisi, amplessi ed estasi
mi finga inebbriato il mio pensier.

Deh! Non fuggir.... nè mai
a te non parlerò de'miei desir.
Reprimerò i miei palpiti,
T'asconderò le lagrime, i sospir.

Ma un dì  se in cor  ti leggo
quel'amor ch'ognor speme a me rapi,
Morrò quel giorno, ah! credilo,
sarà l'estremo de'miei tristi dì.

Thank you to Renato Toffoli for pointing out the correct poet.

Text Authorship:

sometimes misattributed to Eva Cattermole Mancini, Contessa Lara (1849 - 1896)
by Eugenio Mancini [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Luigi Denza (1846 - 1922), "Se" [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Anne Evans) , "If", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , "もし", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Anne Evans

This text was added to the website: 2007-01-22
Line count: 17
Word count: 88

もし

Language: Japanese (日本語) after the German (Deutsch)

もし君の慈悲深い言葉を
つねに無駄に望まなければならないのならば
もしその白い手に
熱い口づけをすることが許されないのならば

ああ! 僕の前からいなくならないで
せめて僕の前からいなくならないでおくれ... 
君の眼差しや
微笑み、抱擁や恍惚の魔法の力に
僕の心は陶酔しているふりをしよう

ああ! 去らないで... 決して 
君に僕の望みは伝えない... 
僕の胸のときめきも、涙やため息も 
君の前では隠していよう...

それでもいつの日か君の心に
僕の全ての希望を奪い去った愛があると知ったら
その日には、僕は死ぬだろう! ああ、本当に!
その日こそ僕の悲しみの日々が終わるのだ

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to Japanese (日本語) copyright © 2025 by Naoyuki Okada, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) misattributed to Eva Cattermole Mancini, Contessa Lara (1849 - 1896) and by Eugenio Mancini
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2025-06-04
Line count: 17
Word count: 21