Melody

when pleasure, in your eyes shines  
full of sweetness, full of growth  
 when the charms of youth  
embelish your graceful lines  
 much often, then, i sigh !!  
  
 thinking that the bitter sorrow  
 as today, far from you, can affect you tomorrow  
and from your lovely lips erase the smile  
 
for, time, drags after it, you know  
''the faded illusions''  
and the dead eyes, and the graceless friends  
 and the cheated future visions  
 
 
but believe me my love, all these growing charms  
that i behold with much drunkeness  
  if ever they would swoon in my caressing arms;  
 you would still have my tenderness  
 
 
 if your charms had faded  
 and you lost your sweet smile  
your beloved graceful lines waned  
and all that in you i admire  
 
 
 
go, my heart is sincere, you could  
 from its sincerity, make everything happen  
 and my love defeating time and destiny would  
 entwine with you more ardent and, tenderly fasten  
 
 
yes, if you would lose all the charms of today  
 i would sob for you, but in this faithful heart  
 i would find a sweetness' new start  
  and when your lovers will leave you away  
 
 
 that in torments, needless to be envious  
 a burning passion would come to stir me  
 *just me, because in this world you see  
 there's only me, to love this flame, am delirious  ! *  
 
 
 but, what can i predict, while youthfulness  
 surrounds you with glow, alas ! surely fading  
 you never can trust a hearts' tenderness  
. that times will not change what in it, is hiding  
 
 
 you will know it, with his age growing old  
 a constant love is like a sun flower  
 that stays open to the rising sun, never folds  
even when the sun fades away in dying hour
 
 
 
**Translated from *Gerard de Nerval's Melody.  
 
21/07/2016