TESTO DEL LIED

"It was with doubt and trembling"
di Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907)

It was with doubt and trembling
I whispered in her ear.
Go, take her answer, bird-on-bough,
That all the world may hear
Sweetheart, sigh no more!
Sing it, sing it, tawny throat,
Upon the wayside tree,
How fair she is, how true she is,
How dear she is to me.
Sweetheart, sigh no more!
Sing it, sing it, tawny throat,
And through the summer long
The winds among the clovertops
And brooks, for all their silv'ry stops,
Shall envy you the song
Sweetheart, sigh no more!