The good song

Reynaldo Hahn

The hard test will end.

My heart, smile at what is to come!

They are finished, the days of alarms,

when I was sad to the point of tears!

I have killed the bitter words,

and banished the dark fantasies!

My eyes, exiled from the sight of her

by a painful duty,

My ear, avid to hear

the golden notes of her tender voice,

all my being and all my love

hail the happy day

when, my only dream and my only thought,

my fiancée will return to me!