E lucevan le stelle [English translation]

When the stars were brightly shining ...

And faint perfumes the air pervaded,

Creaked the gate of the garden ...

And footstep its precincts invaded ...

'Twas hers, the fragant creature.

In her soft arms she clasped me..

With sweetest kisses, tenderest caresses,

A thing of beauty, of matchless symmetry in form and feature!

My dream of love is now dispelled forever.

I lived uncaring and now I die despairing!

Alas I die despairing!

And never was life so dear to me, no never,

So dear, no never!