26 валлийских песен (26 Walisische Lieder): № 21 «Cupid’s kindness».

Приблизительная датировка: ок. 1816.

Исполняемый текст (оригинал):
Dear brother! Yes, the nymph you wed
Must be of loveliest... Читать дальше

26 валлийских песен (26 Walisische Lieder): № 21 «Cupid’s kindness».

Приблизительная датировка: ок. 1816.

Исполняемый текст (оригинал):
Dear brother! Yes, the nymph you wed
Must be of loveliest feature,
The finest heart, the finest head,
The sweetest dearest creature.
This matchless maid go find and woo,
And heav’n for you preserve her!
I only ask, where is in you
Te merit to deserve her?
We girls, I own, are just the same,
Talk folly just as blindly;
And did not Cupid take his aim
And rule the world more kindly,
Fair maids to find with ev’ry grace,
How vain were your endeavour?
And we might in another place
Lead apes, alas! for ever.

William Smyth (1765-1849)

Х Свернуть