Longing

ah!
mi fanciulla!
mi principessa!
mi amore!
to feel your arms around me
over there, in Sorrento,
where you are now!
oh, si, si!
to walk in the night's green gardens
behind your father's villa
and love each other 
under a bright summer moon
so high up in the heavens
si!
sighing, sighing passionately,
then the bacio!
ah! that one, so fatal from you,
that flings me into ecstasy
and so gladdens my heart!

si, to love you from way out here
is not impossible,
even when the great gulf
of the beautiful, jealous Mediterraneo
keeps us far apart,
but never forever

no,
never forever

ENOUGH!! I WILL come to you, my beloved!
tonight! yes, it must be,
it will be TONIGHT!!!!

my father is not so vigilant,
my 'prison' not so secure

Sorrento, BEWARE!!!!
paradiso awaits me-no,
she IS my paradiso!!
and that I shall never, ever
be denied AGAIN!!!! NO!!!!

I come to you tonight, my beloved!
I come to you ready,
ready for love!
ah!
mi fanciulla!
mi principessa!
mi amore!


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