許陳 明正
(In the opera, Delilah is responding to Samson’s words “Dalila! Dalila! Je t’aime!” (Delilah! Delilah! I love you!) which he repeats between the first and second verses of her aria; these interjections are omitted in recital performances or sometimes sung to the changed words “Samson! Samson! Je t’aime!”; Samson’s part in the final 22 bars of the stage aria where he joins Delilah in a duet is also omitted in a recital, although some performers, notably Marilyn Horne, have sung Samson’s final words – changed as above, rising to a high B-flat. A performance takes between 5 1/2 and 6 1/2 minutes.)
Lyrics
My heart at thy dear voice
Wakes with joy, like the flow’r
At the sun’s bright returning!
But O, my dearest one,
That grief may lose its pow’r,
Say ’tis mine, thy heart’s yearning!
Oh, bide here at my side!
Promise ne’er thou’lt depart!
Once more those vows so loving
Let me hear from thy heart!
Breathe that mine still thou art!
|: Ah! respond to Love’s caresses,
Join in all my soul expresses! :|
Samson! Samson! I love you!
As winds o’er golden grain
Softly sigh roving by,
Till ’tis swaying like the ocean,
So sways my burning heart
With rapture when tou’re nigh!
And thy voice speaks thy devotion!
The dart is not so swift,
Bearing fear in its flight,
As I speed to be held
In thine arms of delight!
|: Ah! respond to Love’s caresses,
Join in all my soul expresses! :|
Samson! Samson! I love you!
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