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Mon bien​-​aim​é​, viens donc!

from La Com​é​die de la Mort (2021) for tenor and piano by Thomas Oboe Lee

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LA TRÉPASSÉE.
Mon bien-aimé, viens donc! l'heure est déjà passée
Oh! tiens-moi sur ton coeur, entre tes bras pressée.
        J'ai bien peur, j'ai bien froid.
Réchauffe à tes baisers ma bouche qui se glace.
Oh! viens, je tâcherai de te faire une place
        Car le lit est étroit!

The dead girl:
Oh, beloved, quickly come; long since the hour is passed. Oh, draw me to thy heart, within thine arms close pressed, for cold I am and full of dreadful fears. Warm with thy kisses my mouth which icy feels. Oh! come to my side; and room I’ll make for thee, though narrow is our couch.

LE VER.
Cinq pieds de long sur deux de large. La mesure
Est prise exactement; cette couche est trop dure,
        L'époux ne viendra pas.
Il n'entend pas tes cris. Il rit dans quelque fête.
Allons, sur ton chevet repose en paix ta tête
        Et recroise tes bras.

The worm:
Five feet in length by two in width; the size was taken with care. The couch too hard is; the groom will never come. Thy cries he hears not; at a feast he is. Come, upon thy pillow quietly lay thy head and cross thine arms again.

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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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