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Vocal Texts and Translations Don Carlo POPULACE Spuntato ecco il dì d’esultanza, Onore al più grande dei Regi! In esso hanno i popol’ fidanza, Il mondo è prostrato al suo piè! Il nostro amor ovunque l’accompagna, E questo amor giammai non scemerà. Il nome suo è l’orgoglio della Spagna, E viver deve nell’eternità! MONKS ll dì spuntò, dì del terrore, Il dì tremendo, il dì feral. Morran, morran! Giusto è il rigore dell’Immortal. Ma di perdón voce suprema All’anatema—succederà, Se il peccator all’ora estrema Si pentirà! POPULACE Spuntato è il di. . . D’esultanza, onor al Re! In esso hanno i popol’fidanza, Il mondo è prostrato al suo piè! Ei vivra nell’eternità! Onor al Re! Onor al Re! Nabucco HEBREWS Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate. Va, ti posa sui clivi, sui colli, Ove olezzano tepide e molli L’aure dolci del suolo natal! Del Giordano le rive saluta, Di Sionne le torri atterrate. O mia Patria sì bella e perduta! O membranza sì cara e fatal! Arpa d’or dei fatidici vati, Perché muta dal salice pendi? Le memorie nel petto raccendi, Ci favella del tempo che fu! O simile di Sólima ai fati, Traggi un suono di crudo lamento; O t’ispiri il Signore un concento Che ne infonda al patire virtù. Childhood’s Moon There is a magical story about St. Francis Enjoying the night air one evening in the village of Assisi. When the moon came up, it was huge and luminous, Bathing the entire earth in its radiance. Noticing that no one else was outside to enjoy this miracle, Francis ran to the bell tower and began ringing enthusiastically. The joyous day at last hath dawned, Honor to our most mighty King; Implicit trust his people place in him, The world is prostate at his feet! Our love will everywhere attend him, No, never shall that love decrease, His bright name is the pride of Spain, His fame will through the ages live! The day hath dawned, the day of terror! The tremendous day, the funeral day. They shall die, they shall die, Just is the punishment of the Immortal! But pardon will e’en malediction follow, If the unhappy sinner but repent At the last hour! The joyous day hath dawned. . . All honor to our King! All faith in him his subjects have, The world lies prostate at his feet! He will live in eternity! Honor to the King! Fly, thought, on wings of gold. Go settle upon the slopes and the hills, Where, soft and mild, the sweet airs Of our native land smell fragrant! Greet the banks of the Jordan And Zion’s toppled towers. Oh, my country so beautiful and lost! Oh, remembrance so dear and so fatal! Golden harp of the prophetic seers, Why dost thou hang mute upon the willow? Rekindle our bosom’s memories, And speak to us of times gone by! Mindful of the fate of Jerusalem, Give forth a sound of crude lamentation, Or may the Lord inspire you a harmony of voices Which may instill virtue to suffering. When the people came out of the houses, in alarm, and Saw Francis at the top of the tower, they called up to ask of him an explanation. Francis simply replied, “Lift up your eyes, my friends, Look at the moon!” —as told by Arthur Mampel
I see the moon, the moon sees me, God bless the moon and God bless me, When I see the moon and stars so bright, I thank the Lord for each day and night. —traditional The man in the moon came down too soon, And asked the way to Norwich, He went by the south and burned his mouth Eating cold pease porridge. Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such a sight, And the dish ran away with the spoon. There were three jolly Welshmen, as I have heard them say, And they would go a hunting, upon St. David’s day. All the day they hunted and nothing could they find but a ship A-sailing, with the wind. One said it was a ship, the other he said, nay: The third one said it was a house, and the chimney blown away. And all the night they hunted and nothing could they find, But the moon a-gliding, a-gliding with the wind. Sally go round the sun, Sally go round the moon, Sally go round the chimney pots On a Saturday afternoon. —collected nursery rhymes Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees; One by one the casements catch Her beams beneath the silvery thatch; Couched in his kennel, like a log, With paws of silver sleeps the dog; From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep Of doves in silver feathered sleep A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws, and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream. —Walter de la Mare Q: What kind of ticks do you find on the moon? A: Lunaticks. Q: What did the moon man cook for lunch? A: An unidentified frying object. Q: What kind of bulbs should you plant on the moon? A: Light bulbs. Q: And why can’t the astronauts land on the moon? A: It was already full. Q: What holds the moon up? A: Moonbeams! —collected riddles In the ocean of the sky borne on rising waves of cloud, The moonship goes gilding by Through a forest of stars. —from the Japanese Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy? —Percy Bysshe Shelley #1. What does the moon care if the dogs bark at her? #2. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond. #3. If thou piercest thy foot with a thorn, burn thou the thorn #3. in the light of a new moon, lest the devil possess thy foot. #4. If you cry because you miss the sun, #4. your tears will not let you see the moon. #5. When the moon is pale, it will rain. #5. When the moon is red, it will be windy. #5. But when the moon is clear, it will be serene. #6. No matter how fast moonlight runs, #6. daylight always catches up. —collected proverbs Luna! The moon is the second brightest object in the sky after the sun. The moon is 225,745 miles away. Daytime temperature is 273 degrees Fahrenheit, While nighttime temperature is a minus 245! Twelve men have walked upon the moon. The moon has 9.4 billion acres. It weighs 81 quintillion tons. And the moon is not round at all, it is shaped like an egg; The large end is pointed toward us. —collected facts Luna, Moon alone, gray, melancholy, Sees millions of stars and planets light years away. I remember when first space shuttle landing on my glassy face, So alone, so sad. Orbiting the one friend that seldomly speaks. —Morgan Waidelich Splendidly you rise across this field of gold, Gracing the land in light, Gracing the earth with radiance. On this October evening, The facial flush of your rising Awakens a hope strange and wonderful, To soften a human heart You sit, on that distant hill, Like a generous mother, Granting to her children the luminous warmth Of your wide, silver embrace. —Arthur Mampel
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