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Deus ou trois fois bienheureus le retour
De ce cler Astre, et plus heureus encore
Ce que son oeil de regarder honore.
Que celle là recevroit un beau jour,

Qu’elle pourroit se vanter d’un bon tour
Qui baiseroit le plus beau don de Flore,
Le mieus sentant que jamais vid Aurore,
Et y feroit sur mes levres sejour!

C’est à moy seule à qui ce bien est dù,
Pour tant de pleurs et tant de tems perdu:
Mais le voyant, tant lui feray de feste,

Tant emploiray de mes yeux le pouvoir,
Pour dessus lui plus de credit avoir,
Qu’en peu de temps feray grande conqueste.



It’s twice happy, three times happy, the return
Of his Star. And happier in turn
Is she his gaze will honor: I discern
How she will spend a happy day’s sojourn,

So very proud of the rare luck she will earn
When Flora’s gifts, of handsomest kisses, burn—
The most fragrant lessons Aurora could ever learn,
She on whose lips that sweet bliss will adjourn!

And I am the one to whom this gift should go,
For all my Teras, and my time lost in woe.
So, when I see him, I will show my best,

Using my eyes so well in all their power
That I’ll have the advantage; in the short hour,
I’ll make myself a very grand conquest.

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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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