The sun is coming up! What are you doing? | The sun is coming up! What are you doing?

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by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)

Translation © by Gretchen Armacost

Sorge il sol! Che fai tu!

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Sorge il sol! Che fai tu?
Che fai lassù?
Se dormi, svègliati: è primavera!
Se vegli, lèvati: vienne a gioir!

Sorge il sol! Che fai tu?
Che fai lassù?
È tempo venuto di correre ancor
pei campi stellanti di mille colori;
di sciogliere canti, di cogliere fiori,
di ber lungo i rivi,
d'avere nel cor le gioie d'amor!

Sorge il sol! Che fai tu?
Vienne a gioir...
Chè, se tu non vieni,
non sbocciano i fior.

Text Authorship:

by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941) [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 Stefano Donaudy (1879 - 1925), "Sorge il sol! Che fai tu!", published <<1918, from 36 Arie di Stile Antico, no. 17. [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Gretchen Armacost) , title 1: "The sun is coming up! What are you doing?", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Stuart Price

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 76

The sun is coming up! What are you doing?

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

 The sun is coming up! What are you doing? 
 What are you doing up there? 
 If you are sleeping, wake up: it is spring! 
 If you are awake, get up: come to rejoice. 
 
 The sun is coming up! What are you doing? 
 What are you doing up there? 
 The time has come to run again
 Through fields shining with a thousand colors;
 To send forth songs, to gather flowers,
 To drink along the brooks, to have in your heart
 The joys of love! 
 
 The sun is coming up! What are you doing? 
 Come to rejoice... 
 Since if you don't come,
 The flowers won't bloom!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 105