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FOLK SONG: O BLANCA VIRGEN A TU VENTANA!, by                    
First Line: "o fairest maiden, approach thy window!"
Last Line: "to earth I'll turn me, to earth I'll turn me, and mine thou'lt be"
Subject(s): Courtship;love


He. O fairest maiden, approach thy window!
Come to thy railing and turn thy ear,
While gentle breezes waft of my singing
The eternal echoes of thee to hear!

She. Vain are these murmurs of all thy singing;
The eternal echoes stir not my heart.
A nest my heart is, of love and rapture;
I live in a heaven, I live in a heaven of love apart.

He. Then to an eagle my life I'll alter,
Up to thy heaven swift I shall fly.

She. Then to a fish of the sea I'll change me,
Hidden beneath the waves I'll lie.

He. Within the ocean, I'll quickly seek thee,
The waves will help me to find thee there.

She. Then to a bird I'll turn my being,
My flight shall take me, my flight shall take me from flower to flower.

She. A live oak I'll be amid the boulders.

He. As clinging ivy I'll clasp thee near.

She. As a nun, hood and cowl I'll be wearing.

He. Saintly confessor, thy voice I'll hear.

She. Through convent portal, if thou shouldst enter,
Dead thou wilt find me among the flowers.

He. Among the flowers, if dead I find thee,
To earth I'll turn me, to earth I'll turn me, and mine thou'lt be.





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