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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Gil Vicente (c. 1470–c. 1536)

The Song of Spring

From the Portuguese

I’LL away to the garden,

For winter is over;

The Rose is awake

To the song of her lover!

I will go and discover

The passionate Nightingale singing above her.

From the boughs green and golden

That slope to the river,

A nymph gathers lemons

To give to her lover:

I will go and discover

The shy little Nightingale singing above her.

Near the vineyard, where often

I’ve spied out a rover,

Sits a damsel who sings

To be heard by her lover:

I will go and discover

The bold little Nightingale singing above her.