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Uploaded by on Jan 29, 2009

In youth's spring, it was my lot
To haunt of the wide earth a spot
To which I could not love the less
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound
And the tall trees that towered around

But when the night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot as upon all
And the wind would pass me by
In its stilly melody

My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake
My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake

Yet that terror was not fright
But a tremulous delight
And a feeling undefined
Springing from a darkened mind
Death was in that poisoned wave
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his dark imagining
Whose wildering thought could even make
An Eden of that dim lake

But when the night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot as upon all
And the wind would pass me by
In its stilly melody

My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake
My infant spirit would awake
To the terror of the lone lake

Springing from a darkened mind
So lovely was the loneliness
In youth's spring, it was my lot
In its stilly melody
An Eden of that dim lake
An Eden of that dim lake
Lone, lone, lonely...

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  • this song is great with flowers cheetos and fine cheap chardonnay, genuinely!

  • Oh, allora,

    con un sussulto io mi destavo

    al terrore di quel solitario lago.

    Oh, allora,

    con un sussulto io mi destavo

    al terrore di quel solitario lago.

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  • One of the best songs ... Cheers!

  • Nel fior di giovinezza, ebbi in sorte

    d' abitar del vasto mondo un luogo

    che non poteva ch' essermi caro e diletto -

    tanto m' era dolce d' un ermo lago

    la selvaggia bellezza, cinto di nere rocce,

    con alti pini torreggianti intorno.

    Ma poi che Notte, come su tutto,

    aveva li' disteso il suo manto,

    e il mistico vento e melodioso

    passava sussurrando –

  • Pure, non mi dava spavento quel terrore,

    ma anzi un tiepido diletto

    E un sentimento indefinito

    Sta sbocciando da una mente oscurata

    Morte abitava in quelle acque attossicate,

    e una tomba nel profondo gorgo

    era disposta per chi sapesse ricavarne

    un sollievo al suo immaginare:

    il solingo spirito sapesse fare

    un Eden di quell' oscuro lago.

  • Ma poi che Notte, come su tutto,

    aveva li' disteso il suo manto,

    e il mistico vento e melodioso

    passava sussurrando –

  • Oh, allora,

    con un sussulto io mi destavo

    Oh, allora,

    con un sussulto io mi destavo

    al terrore di quel solitario lago.

  • Sta sbocciando da una mente oscurata

    Così piacevole era la solitudine

    Nel fior di giovinezza, ebbi in sorte

    e il mistico vento e melodioso

    un Eden di quell' oscuro lago.

    un Eden di quell' oscuro lago.

    Solo, solo, solitario…

  • Wow. 

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