Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy (Italian Poetry in Translation Book 2)

(Marcin) #1
The Rainbow

Les enfants sont tout l’horizon
What a beautiful rainbow of love;
What a beautiful tricolor
The rainbow has appeared,
now we’ve bread, and wine and oil.
Tricolor of peace,
Providence that’s pleased
and shows us the rainbow:
now we’ve bread, wine and oil.
The deluge has all ended.
God’s sun has begun to smile again,
drawing a rainbow now in the sky:
now we’ve bread, and wine and oil.
Storm and war are at an end,
earth and sky are now embracing
and the rainbow has appeared:
now we’ve bread, and wine and oil.
Rainbow of peace and love
the best tricolor of them all,
the tricolor of the rainbow:
now we’ve bread, and wine and oil.
(Translated by Gaetano Cipolla)

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