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La Zingara (The Gypsy Girl)
Gaetano Donizetti | Text by Carlo Guaita

The gypsy girl! On the grass sprinkled with dew frozen,
covered by only the large mantle of the sky,
my mother, rejoicing, brought me to life.
As a young girl, I emulated the goats on the cliffs,
when I grew up, I danced through towns and cities,
and many ladies extended their palms to me.
Ah! The gypsy girl.
I would predict for them the things not noticed,
some I made sad, some I made happy,
Secrets I knew of anger, of love.
But one day the hand of a page was offered to me.
I had never seen such an attractive , handsome boy;
Oh! If only he, like a gypsy,
would read the future of my heart from my right hand!