TESTO DEL LIED

"Let's be gay"
di John Gay (1685-1732)

Youth's the season made for joys;
Love is then our duty.
She alone who that employs
Well deserves her beauty.
Let's be gay while we may
Drink and sport yet today;
Let's be gay while we may,
Beauty's a flow'r despis'd in decay.
Let us drink and sport today;
Ours is not tomorrow.
Love with youth flies swift away,
Age is naught but sorrow.
Let's be gay, dance and sing;
Let's be gay, time's on the wing,
Dance and sing, time's on the wing,
Life never knows the return of spring.