Quando la luce splenderá!
Birthday wishes for a grand old lady.
Birthday wishes for a grand old lady.
I never knew what to write in a birthday card Mum, I’m sure you’d agree
Today is no different, so that makes it three
Birthday’s that is, that one special day
When an Angel descended from heaven, and decided to stay
But worry not princess, I poet I am not
You’d still have been proud! If it rhymed, or it didn’t
What dreams may come, What promises to keep
None shall sleep Mum. None shall sleep.
Now for some altogether more lucid words courtesy of a grand old lady’s favourite song, composed by Giacomo Puccini and sung by Luciano Pavarotti, a man for whom his very singing invigorated my dear old Mum to sparkle and shine, and light up like the brightest firework in a night sky.
“Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, o Principessa
Nella tua fredda stanza
Guardi le stelle che tremano
D’amore e di speranza!
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me
Il nome mio nessun saprà!
No, no, sulla tua bocca lo dirò
Quando la luce splenderà!
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà
Il silenzio che ti fa mia!
ll nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè! Morir! Morir!
Dilegua, o notte! Tramontate, stelle!
Tramontate, stelle! All’alba vincerò!
Vincerò! Vincerò!”
“None shall sleep,
None shall sleep!
Even you, oh Princess,
In your cold room,
Watch the stars,
That tremble with love
And with hope.
But my secret is hidden within me,
My name no one shall know,
No… no…
On your mouth, I will tell it,
When the light shines.
And my kiss will dissolve the silence that makes you mine!
(No one will know his name and we must, alas, die.)
Vanish, o night!
Set, stars! Set, stars!
At dawn, I will win!
I will win!
I will win!”
Thanks for reading. For less serious and soon to be Pulitzer Prize winning fare, please feel free to take the tour of wonders around my library here or alternatively, my three most recently published articles are linked below:
An insurrection of mind control
Twitter Watch: Vol 14. Another week that wasn’t.medium.com
Reds in Seventh Heaven as they cast the Manchester Devils into the night
Liverpool 7 (SEVEN) Manchester United 0, 5th March 2023.medium.com
“Mother!” (2017)
Darren Aronofsky and a descent into hell.medium.com