La Mia Mamma

 

Written On A Stone

 

 My Beloved Sister

Tell them please they're

Heaven's Sweet Kisses

Engraved in my soul.

Treasured on a music sheet

With ink of gold,

Wherever may

The minuscule melody be,

Dancing forever

They're within me.

The favorite of 

the moon and the stars

This, the Angels sing.

Jules Barbier

- Oui, mon père à present m'impose la vertu du silence.

Antonia, "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"

Blessing

 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 

. . .

In Song

 

Let us go early to the vineyards

to see if the vines have budded

if their blossoms have opened, 

and if the pomegranates are in bloom.

There I will give you my love.

H. W. Longfellow, Paul Revere and The Minutemen

 

One by Land N' Two by Sea