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by Alberto Donaudy (1880 - 1941)

Tempo è alfin di muover guerra
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
Tempo è alfin di muover guerra
contro chi più ci tiranna,
più c'illude e più c'inganna,
or fedele, or traditore...
Se un nemico abbiamo in terra, è l'Amor!
Basta avere un usbergo suI cuore:
quello è il nostro tallone d'Achille...
Siam, del resto, più di mille,
tutti pieni di vigore;
sicchè certo l'Arcadore questa volta perirà!

Mai crociata come questa fu più giusta,
più fatale se salvarci può dal male,
onde tutti noi soffriamo...
Su, a cavallo! Lancia in resta! E voliam!
Ecco adesso in agguato sostiamo:
giunge Amore d'intorno saettando...
Tutti fermi!
Solo quando egli è giunto noi sortiamo
e prigion lo dichiariamo...
Ahi, che invece mi ferì!

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), "Tempo è alfin di muover guerra", published <<1918, from 36 Arie di Stile Antico, no. 36. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (Gretchen Armacost) , title 1: "It is time at last to wage war", 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: 20
Word count: 109

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