| How could we comprise the Void?
| How could we comprise the Void?
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| Our small minds can’t keep it in
| Our small minds can't keep it in
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| Getting close to where our conscience fades
| Getting close to where our conscience fades
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| Feels like there, while it vanishes away
| Feels like there, while it vanishes away
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| Nothingness can’t be imagined
| Nothingness can't be imagined
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| We can only knock on the next door
| We can only knock on the next door
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| While our lives proceed along their path
| While our lives proceed along their path
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| Safe and blind, slowly fading away
| Safe and blind, slowly fading away
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| Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle
| This hill was always dear to me
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| E questa siepe, che da tanta parte
| And this hedge, which goes so far
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| Dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude
| From the last horizon the gaze excludes
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| Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
| But sitting and looking, take it forever
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| Spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
| Spaces beyond that, and superhuman
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| Silenzi, e profondissima quiete
| Silence, and very deep stillness
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| Io nel pensier mi fingo; | In my thoughts I pretend; |
| ove per poco
| where for a while
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| Il cor non si spaura. | The heart is not afraid. |
| E come il vento
| And like the wind
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| Odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
| I hear rustling among these plants, I that one
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| Infinito silenzio a questa voce
| Infinite silence to this voice
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| Vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno
| I compare myself: and I remember the eternal
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| E le morte stagioni, e la presente
| And the dead seasons, and the present
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| E viva, e il suon di lei. | And alive, and the sound of her. |
| Così tra questa
| So between this
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| Immensità s’annega il pensier mio
| Immensity drowns my thoughts
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| We all are the others
| We all are the others
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| Nobody is himself
| Nobody is himself
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| E il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare | And shipwreck is sweet to me in this sea |