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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Gil Vicente (c. 1470–c. 1536)

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.