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Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I
Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat
Where every rising swell
Would sweep us at our will across the sky
Then tempest never, or weather dire
Could ever make our blissful living cease
No, but abiding in a steady, blessed peace
Together in harmony
And Lady Vanna and Lagia then
She who looms the thirty best
Would join us at the enchanter's behest
And there we'd talk of love without an end
To make those ladies happy in the sky
With Lapo enchanted too, and you and I
Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat
Where every rising swell
Would sweep us at our will across the sky
Could ever make our blissful living cease
No, but abiding in a steady, blessed peace
Together in harmony
She who looms the thirty best
Would join us at the enchanter's behest
To make those ladies happy in the sky
With Lapo enchanted too, and you and I
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Submitted by
mellow_harsher On Nov 10, 2011
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This song is based on a loose cover of Dante Alighieri poem "Love and Poetry". A bit about the poem:
"Dante is writing of Guido Cavalcanti and Lapo Gianni who were poets in his literary circle; Lady Vanna and Lady Lagia who were the ladies to Guido and Lapo; Beatrice who is referred to in the poem in line 10 as the 'she' who looms above the 30 best is Beatrice, Dante's immortal and eternal love (the 30 best are the 30 Dante named as the most beautiful women of the whole of Florence); and of the enchanter as in Merlin himself. In the painting it is key to realize that the moment in time is when Beatrice was alive in Florence because it is later after she is dead that he immortalizes her in his Divine Comedy as Eternal Love . . ."