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Lut, compagnon de ma calamité,
De mes soupirs témoin irréprochable,
De mes ennuis controlleur véritable,
Tu as souvent avec moy lamenté:

Et tant le leur piteus t’a molesté,
Que commençant quelque son delectable,
To le rendois tout soudein lamentable,
Feignant le ton que plein avoit chanté.

Et si tu veus efforcer au contraire,
Tu te destens et si me contreins taire:
Mais me voyant tendrement soupirer,

Donnant faveur à ma tant triste pleinte:
En mes ennuis me plaire suis contreinte,
Et d’un tous mal douce fin espérer.



Lute, my companion in calamity,
Irreproachable witness of my sighs,
Faithful secretary of all my cries,
You have lamented so often with me

That my tears have driven you deep into pity.
Now, if a delicious sound starts to arise,
You turn it back to a sad lament, disguise
It with tones you’ve sung so much more frequently.

No matter how I try to force you the other way,
You struggle, and loosen your strings, and steal away
My song. Still, when you watch my tender sighing,

Indulging me, listening again while I complain,
I know pleasure, I find an opposite in my pain,
And hope sweet suffering will lead me to sweet dying.

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from Sept Sonnets de Louise Labé (2021), released March 18, 2022

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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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