LUNGI ? la luce che in s? questo muro
Rifrange appena, un breve istante scorta
Del rio palazzo alla soprana porta.
Lungi quei fiori d’Enna, O lido oscuro,
Dal frutto tuo fatal che omai m’? duro.
Lungi quel cielo dal tartareo manto
Che qu? mi cuopre: e lung? ahi lungi ahi quanto
Le notti che saran dai d? che furo.
Lungi da me mi sento; e ognor sognando
Cerco e ricerco, e resto ascoltatrice;
E qualche cuore a qualche anima dice,
(Di cui mi giunge il suon da quando in quando.
Continuamente insieme sospirando,)-
“Oim? per te, Proserpina infelice!”
AFAR away the light that brings cold cheer
Unto this wall,-one instant and no more
Admitted at my distant palace-door.
Afar the flowers of Enna from this drear
Dire fruit, which, tasted once, must thrall me here.
Afar those skies from this Tartarean grey
That chills me: and afar, how far away,
The nights that shall be from the days that were.
Afar from mine own self I seem, and wing
Strange ways in thought, and listen for a sign:
And still some heart unto some soul doth pine,
(Whose sounds mine inner sense is fain to bring,
Continually together murmuring,)-
“Woe’s me for thee, unhappy Proserpine!”
(Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
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