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Versi .​.​. Allegro

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

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II. Versi

Lungi da me, o alcioni
della Memoria, via;
cercate nidi più tranquilli e buoni
che questa abbandonata anima mia.
Non giungano all’inverno del mio cuor
nuove di vostra primavera effimera!
Oh! in vano in vano voi tornate ancor!

Avvoltoi, avvoltoi
che i nidi costruite
dell’Avvenire su le torri, a voi
le speranze deluse e rinverdite,
le gioie che la morte perseguì,
e le morenti daran preda un dì.


Far, far away, O ye 

Halcyons of Memory, 

Seek some far calmer nest

Than this abandoned breast! 

No news of your false spring 

To my heart’s winter bring, 

Once having gone, in vain 
Ye come again. 



Vultures, who build your bowers 

High in the Future’s towers, 

Withered hopes on hopes are spread! 

Dying joys, choked by the dead, 

Will serve your beaks for prey 

Many a day.

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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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