D'Agosto
Language:
Italian
D'agosto si vi do trenta castella
In una valle d'alpe montanina,
Che non vi possa vento de marina
Per istar sani e chiari come stella;
E palafreni de montare 'n sella,
E cavalcar la sera e la matina,
E l'una terra a l'altra sia vicina,
Ch'un miglo sia la vostra giornatella,
Tornando tutta via verso casa;
E per la valle corra una fiumana,
Che vada notte e di traente e rasa;
E star nel fresco tutta meriggiana;
La vostra borsa sempre a bocca pasa
Per la miglor vivanda di Toscana.
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Set in
English,
adapted by
Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
ENG
Date added to the website: 2003-11-02.
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August
Language:
English
Be your dwelling thirty towers
Within an Alpine valley mountainous,
Where never the sea-wind may vex your house
but clear life sep'rate, like a star, be yours.
There horses shall wait saddled at all hours,
That ye may mount at morn or at eve;
On each hand either ridge ye shall perceive
a mile apart, which soon a good beast scours.
So alway, drawing homewards,
ye shall tread your valley parted by a rivulet
which day and night shall flow sedate and smooth.
There all through noon ye may possess the shade,
and there your open purses shall entreat
the best of Tuscan cheer to feed your youth.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
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Date added to the website: 2003-11-02.
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