Britten: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22 - Sonetto XXXII - Peter Pears, Бенджамин Бриттен

S’un casto amor, s’una pietà superna

S’una fortuna infra dua amanti equale

S’un’aspra sorte all’un dell’altro cale

S’un spirto, s’un voler duo cor governa;

S’un’anima in duo corpi è fatta etterna

Ambo levando al cielo e con pari ale;

S’amor c’un colpo e d’un dorato strale

Le viscer di duo petti arda e discerna;

S’amar l’un l’altro, e nessun se medesmo

D’un gusto e d’un diletto, a tal mercede

C’a un fin voglia l’uno e l’altro porre;

Se mille e mille non sarien centesmo

A tal nodo d’amore, a tanta fede;

E sol l’isdegno il può rompere e sciorre

Yes a chaste love, yes a supernal piety

It is a fortune between two equal lovers

There is a bitter fate to each other in the coves

Yes a spirit, yes a wanting duo cor governs;

A soul in two bodies is made eternal

Both raising to the sky and with equal wings;

For love there is a shot and a golden arrow

The viscer of two breasts burns and discerns;

Love each other, and no self

Of a taste and a delight, for such a reward

There is a finality both of which may pose;

If a thousand and a thousand will not be a hundredth

To this knot of love, to so much faith;

And only the jurisdiction can break and flow