12/09/2008

If love's a sweet passion


Quelle étrange manie ont tous ces gens ? Je vais de mariage en mariage... Ce faire-part est pour Elodie et Laurent, qui se marient ce ouikende ! Yepee !

Pour l'occasion, je mets mon air préféré de "The fairy queen", de Purcell...

"If love's a sweet passion, why does it torment ? If a bitter, oh tell me whence comes my content ?
Since I suffer with pleasure why should I complain , or grieve at my fate when I know 'tis in vain ?
Yet so pleasing the pain is, so soft is the dart that an once it both wounds me and tickles my heart."

"I press her hand gently, look languishing down, and by passionate silence I make my love known.
But oh! how I'm blest when so kind she does prove by willing mistake to discover her love.
When in striving to hide she reveals all her flame, and our eyes tell each other what neither dares name."

Joli, non ?