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Ye dear stars of the Bear I did not think	A
I should again be turning as I used	B
To see you over father's garden shine	C
And from the windows talk with you again	D
Of this old house where as a child I dwelt	E
And where I saw the end of all my joys	F
What charming images what fables once	G
The sight of you created in my thought	H
And of the lights that bear you company	I
Silent upon the verdant clod I sat	J
My evening thus consuming as I gazed	K
Upon the heavens and listened to the chant	L
Of frogs that in the distant marshes croaked	L
While o'er the hedges ditches fire flies roamed	L
And the green avenues and cypresses	G
In yonder grove were murmuring to the wind	L
While in the house were heard at intervals	G
The voices of the servants at their work	M
What thoughts immense in me the sight inspired	L
Of that far sea and of the mountains blue	N
That yonder I behold and which I thought	L
One day to cross mysterious worlds and joys	G
Mysterious in the future fancying	M
Of my hard fate unconscious and how oft	L
This sorrowful and barren life of mine	C
I willingly would have for death exchanged	L
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Nor did my heart e'er tell me I should be	I
Condemned the flower of my youth to spend	L
In this wild native region and amongst	L
A wretched clownish crew to whom the names	G
Of wisdom learning are but empty sounds	G
Or arguments of laughter and of scorn	O
Who hate avoid me not from envy no	P
For they do not esteem me better than	Q
Themselves but fancy that I in my heart	L
That feeling cherish though I strive indeed	L
No token of such feeling to display	R
And here I pass my years abandoned lost	L
Of love deprived of life and rendered fierce	G
'Mid such a crowd of evil minded ones	G
My pity and my courtesy I lose	G
And I become a scorner of my race	G
By such a herd surrounded meanwhile fly	S
The precious hours of youth more precious far	T
Than fame or laurel or the light of day	R
Or breath of life thus uselessly without	L
One joy I lose thee in this rough abode	L
Whose only guests are care and suffering	M
O thou the only flower of barren life	U
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The wind now from the tower of the town	V
The deep sound of the bell is bringing Oh	P
What comfort was that sound to me a child	L
When in my dark and silent room I lay	R
Besieged by terrors longing for the dawn	W
Whate'er I see or hear recalls to mind	L
Some vivid image recollection sweet	L
Sweet in itself but O how bitter made	L
By painful sense of present suffering	M
By idle longing for the past though sad	L
And by the still recurring thought I was	G
Yon gallery that looks upon the west	L
Those frescoed walls these painted herds the sun	X
Just rising o'er the solitary plain	Y
My idle hours with thousand pleasures filled	L
While busy Fancy at my side still spread	L
Her bright illusions wheresoe'er I went	L
In these old halls when gleamed the snow without	L
And round these ample windows howled the wind	L
My sports resounded and my merry words	G
In those bright days when all the mysteries	G
And miseries of things an aspect wear	Z
So full of sweetness when the ardent youth	A2
Sees in his untried life a world of charms	G
And like an unexperienced lover dotes	G
On heavenly beauty creature of his dreams	G
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O hopes illusions of my early days	G
Of you I still must speak to you return	B2
For neither flight of time nor change of thoughts	G
Or feelings can efface you from my mind	L
Full well I know that honor and renown	V
Are phantoms pleasures but an idle dream	C2
That life a useless misery has not	L
One solid fruit to show and though my days	G
Are empty wearisome my mortal state	L
Obscure and desolate I clearly see	G
That Fortune robs me but of little Yet	L
Alas as often as I dwell on you	N
Ye ancient hopes and youthful fancy's dreams	G
And then look at the blank reality	G
A life of ennui and of wretchedness	G
And think that of so vast a fund of hope	D2
Death is to day the only relic left	L
I feel oppressed at heart I feel myself	E2
Of every comfort utterly bereft	L
And when the death that I have long invoked	L
Shall be at hand the end be reached of all	F2
My sufferings when this vale of tears shall be	G
To me a stranger and the future fade	L
Fade from sight forever even then shall I	S
Recall you and your images will make	M
Me sigh the thought of having lived in vain	Y
Will then intrude with bitterness to taint	L
The sweetness of that day of destiny	G
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Nay in the first tumultuous days of youth	A2
With all its joys desires and sufferings	G
I often called on death and long would sit	L
By yonder fountain longing in its waves	G
To put an end alike to hope and grief	G2
And afterwards by lingering sickness brought	L
Unto the borders of the grave I wept	L
O'er my lost youth the flower of my days	G
So prematurely fading often too	N
At late hours sitting on my conscious bed	L
Composing by the dim light of the lamp	H2
I with the silence and the night would moan	I2
O'er my departing soul and to myself	E2
In languid tones would sing my funeral song	M
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Who can remember you without a sigh	S
First entrance into manhood O ye days	G
Bewitching inexpressible when first	L
On the enchanted mortal smiles the maid	L
And all things round in emulation smile	J2
And envy holds its peace not yet awake	M
Or else in a benignant mood and when	D
O marvel rare the world a helping hand	L
To him extends his faults excuses greets	G
His entrance into life with bows and smiles	G
Acknowledges his claims to its respect	L
O fleeting days How like the lightning's flash	K2
They vanish And what mortal can escape	L2
Unhappiness who has already passed	L
That golden period his own good time	M2
That comes alas so soon to disappear	N2
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And thou Nerina does not every spot	L
Thy memory recall And couldst thou e'er	O2
Be absent from my thought Where art thou gone	W
That here I find the memory alone	I2
Of thee my sweet one Thee thy native place	G
Beholds no more that window whence thou oft	L
Wouldst talk with me which sadly now reflects	G
The light of yonder stars is desolate	L
Where art thou that I can no longer hear	P2
Thy gentle voice as in those days of old	L
When every faintest accent from thy lips	G
Was wont to turn me pale Those days have gone	W
They have been my sweet love And thou with them	Q2
Hast passed To others now it is assigned	L
To journey to and fro upon the earth	R2
And others dwell amid these fragrant hills	G
How quickly thou hast passed Thy life was like	M
A dream While dancing there joy on thy brow	S2
Resplendent shone anticipations bright	L
Shone in thy eyes the light of youth when Fate	L
Extinguished them and thou didst prostrate lie	S
Nerina in my heart the old love reigns	G
If I at times still go unto some feast	L
Or social gathering unto myself	E2
I say Nerina thou no more to feast	L
Dost go nor for the ball thyself adorn	O
If May returns when lovers offerings	G
Of flowers and of songs to maidens bring	M
I say Nerina mine to thee spring ne'er	Z
Returns and love no more its tribute brings	G
Each pleasant day each flowery field that I	S
Behold each pleasure that I taste the thought	L
Suggest Nerina pleasure knows no more	T2
The face of heaven and earth no more beholds	G
Ah thou hast passed for whom I ever sigh	S
Hast passed and still the memory of thee	G
Remains and with each thought and fancy blends	G
Each varying emotion of the heart	L
And will remain so bitter yet so sweet	L

Giacomo Leopardi

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