Song
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.
Cançó
Quan sigui morta, amor,
no cantis cançons tristes per a mi.
Sobre el meu cap no plantis roses,
ni fosc xiprer mesquí.
Sobre meu fes d’herba verda
rosada i fosa al sol.
I, si tu vols, recorda’m viva
o oblida’m, si tu vols.
Ja no veuré les dolces ombres.
Ploure no sentiré i el rossinyol,
cantant sa pena, ja no l’oiré.
I somniant dins el crepuscle
d’un etern recer
potser el record em faci seva.
Oblidaré potser.
(versió de Rosa Leveroni)
