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"Donna con mandolino" (1755), olio su tela, 92.1 x 74.9 cm, del pittore Giambattista Tiepolo (The Institute of Arts, Detroit)


TESTO DEL LIED

"Little Fly, thy summer's play"
di William Blake (1757-1827)

Little Fly,
Thy summer's play
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink & sing:
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength & breath
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.

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