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One Fine Day (Un Bel Di)

One fine day, we'll notice
A thread of smoke arising
On the sea, in the far horizon
And then, the ship appearing;
Then the trim white vessel
Glides into the harbour,
Thunders forth her canon.
See you? Now he is coming!
I do not go to meet him.
Not I! I stay up on the brow
of the hillock,
And wait there... and wait for
a long time,
But never weary of the
long waiting.
From out of the crowded city,
There is coming a man,
A little speck in the distance,
Climbing the hillock.
Can you guess who it is?
And when he's reached
the summit,
Can you guess what he'll say?
He will call: "Butterfly" from
the distance.
I, without answering,
Hold myself quietly concealed
A bit to tease him and a bit
So as not to die at our
first meeting;
And then, a little troubled he
will call,
"Dear baby wife of mine,
Dear little orange blossom!"
The names he used to call me
when he came here.
This will all come to pass as I
tell you.
Banish your idle fears,
For he will return, I know it!