by
Giovanni Pascoli (1855 - 1912)
Fides
Language: Italian (Italiano)
Quando brillava il vespero vermiglio,
e il cipresso pareva oro, oro fino,
la madre disse al piccoletto figlio:
Così fatto è lassù tutto un giardino.
Il bimbo dorme, e sogna i rami d'oro,
gli alberi d'oro, le foreste d'oro;
mentre il cipresso nella notte nera
scagliasi al vento, piange alla bufera.
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Faith
Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)
As dusk shone, red all about,
and the cypress resembled the finest gold,
a mother said to her tiny child:
"Thus, that entire expanse has become a garden."
The baby sleeps, and dreams on golden branches,
golden trees, forests of gold.
The cypress, meanwhile, amidst the blackness of night
hurls itself into the wind and cries out during a squall.
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