TESTO DEL LIED

"The rapid stream"
di Charles Mackay (1814-1889)

O streamlet, swiftly flowing,
Down through the cornfields going,
Stay thy course with me.
Stay thy course with me
For us the skylarks sing,
For us awakes the Spring;
There's time to spare, the earth is fair,
Why hurry to the sea?
The sky is bright above thee,
Silv'ry branches love thee,
Bending to the reeds;
Bending with the reeds;
No mill with busy wheel,
Or ship with ploughing keel,
With sad unrest disturbs thy breast,
Amid the flow'ry meads.
O streamlet, swiftly flowing,
Stay thy course with me,
There's time to spare, the earth is fair,
Why hurry to the sea?