O springtime
Raffaello Rontani
Oh springtime, youth of the year,
beautiful mother of flowers,
of new plants and of new loves,
you return indeed, but with you
are not returning the bright
and lucky days of my joys.
You return indeed, you return,
but with you, otherwise, is returning
only my dear lost treasure's
memory, sad and sorrowful.
You are that one, indeed that one
that you were not long ago, so lovely and beautiful,
but I am not that one that once I was,
so valued in the eyes of others.