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Filosofia dell'Amore .​.​. Adagio

from Ascoli​-​Shelley Cycle (2023) by Thomas Oboe Lee

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V. Filosofia Dell’Amore

I fonti ai rivi mesconsi;
mesconsi i rivi al mare;
i venti in ciel si uniscono
con dolce palpitare.

L’una con l’altra fondonsi
tutte le cose, che
nell’universo vivono;
perchè non io con te?

Vedi: i monti il ciel baciano;
tra lor s’abbraccian le onde;
e ciascun fiore l’anima
in altro fiore effonde.

Del sol la terra allietasi;
bacia la luna il mar.
Questi baci che valgono,
se non mi vuoi baciar?


The fountains mingle with the river
   And the rivers with the ocean,
The winds of heaven mix for ever
   With a sweet emotion;
Nothing in the world is single;
   All things by a law divine
In one spirit meet and mingle.
   Why not I with thine?—

See the mountains kiss high heaven
   And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
   If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
   And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
   If thou kiss not me?

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from Ascoli​-​Shelley Cycle (2023), released October 3, 2023

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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