Nepomuceno Alberto – Coracao Triste
Alberto Nepomuceno (July 6, 1864 – October 16, 1920) was a Brazilian composer and conductor.
LYRICS (by Machado de Assis, Brazil’s greatest novel author)
No arvoredo sussurra o vendaval do outono
Deita as folhas à terra, onde não há florir
E eu contemplo sem pena esse triste abandono
Só eu as vi nascer, vejo-as só eu cair
Como a escura montanha, esguia e pavorosa
Faz, quando o sol descamba, o vale anoitecer.
Esta montanha da alma, a tristeza amorosa
Também de ignota sombra enche todo o meu ser.
Transforma o frio inverno a água em pedra dura
Mas torna a pedra em água um raio de verão.
Vem, ó sol, vem, assume o trono teu na altura
Vê se podes fundir o meu triste coração.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
The autumn gale whispers in the grove and
Throws the leaves to the ground, where there is no bloom,
And I contemplate this sad abandonment without pain.
Only I saw their birth, only I see them fall,
Like the dark mountain, slim and frightful,
That darkens the valley when the sun descends.
This mountain of the soul, this loving sadness
Also fills my whole being with an unknown shadow.
The winter turns the water into hard rock,
However a ray of summer can turn the rock into water.
Come, o sun, come, take your throne at the heights.
See if you can melt my sad heart.
