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

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VI. A ……….

La musica, se muoiano i dolci accordi tenui,
vibra nella memoria;
gli odori, se appassiscano le violette, vivono
entro il senso che movono;
per letto dell’Amata s’adunan delle morte
rose le foglie. Sorte
ugual ti toccherà:
su i tuoi pensieri, quando sarai partita, il trepido
Amor s’adagerà.


Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory—
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

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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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