Faith | As dusk shone, red all about

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by Giovanni Pascoli (1855 - 1912)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Fides

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

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.

Text Authorship:

by Giovanni Pascoli (1855 - 1912), "Fides", appears in Myricae, in Creature, no. 1, first published 1891 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Arthur Iberê de Lemos (1901 - 1967), "Fides", published [19--] [ voice and piano ], from Momento líricos (Álbum n.1), no. 2, Rio de Janeiro: Sampaio Araújo [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Faith", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-07-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 51

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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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Giovanni Pascoli (1855 - 1912), "Fides", appears in Myricae, in Creature, no. 1, first published 1891
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This text was added to the website: 2019-05-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 60