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Su Una Violetta Morta .​.​. Moderato

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

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IV. Su Una Violetta Morta

È vanito l’odor di questo fiore,
che, come il bacio tuo, tenero ardente
respirava su me.
Anche di questo fior fuggi il colore,
che raggiava di te soavemente,
di te solo di te.

Forma languida, vana, senza vita
ella è caduta sul mio stanco petto,
sovra il mio stanco cuor;
silenziosa, fredda, scolorita
ella l’anima irride con diletto,
l’anima calda ancor.

In vano, in vano io piango a lei d’accanto;
e sospirando in van su lei mi chino:
oh! tutto in lei finì!
Il suo destino è muto, senza pianto.
Il suo destino è muto. Oh! il mio destino
dovrebbe esser così.

The odour from the flower is gone
Which like thy kisses breathed on me;
The colour from the flower is flown
Which glowed of thee and only thee!

A shrivelled, lifeless, vacant form,
It lies on my abandoned breast,
And mocks the heart which yet is warm,
With cold and silent rest.

I weep,--my tears revive it not!
I sigh,--it breathes no more on me;
Its mute and uncomplaining lot
Is such as mine should be.

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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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