Cantata. Del Metastasio

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Title:     Cantata. Del Metastasio
Author: Matilda Betham [More Titles by Betham]

"D'atre nubi e il sol ravvolto,
Luce infausta il Ciel colora.
Pur chi sa? Quest' alma ancora
La speranza non perde.

Non funesta ogni tempesta
Co' naufragj all' onde il seno;
Ogni tuono, ogni baleno
Sempre un fulmine non e."

 

TRANSLATION.

Dark, mournful clouds hang o'er the sun,
Lights gleam portentous in the air,
And yet who knows? This troubled heart
Still gives not up to blank despair.

Not big with shipwrecks every storm,
That sweeps the bosom of the main,
Nor does the threatening, turbid sky,
Always the thunder-bolt contain.

[The end]
Matilda Betham's poem: Cantata. Del Metastasio

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