TESTO DEL LIED

"The primrose"
di Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Ask me why I send you here
This sweet Infanta of the year?
Ask me why I send to you
This Primrose thus be-pearled with dew?
I will whisper to your ears,
The sweets of love are mixed with tears.
Ask me why the flow'r does show,
So yellow-green, and sickly too?
Ask me why the stalk is weak,
And bending, yet it doth not break?
I will answer, these discover,
What fainting hopes are in a lover.