Svanir le voci

English Libretto or Translation:

POLLIONE
The voices have died away. The path
Now is free through the awful wood.

FLAVIO
In this forest lurks Death.
Norma told you so.

POLLIONE
You have spoken a name
Which chills my heart.

FLAVIO
What are you saying? Your beloved,
The mother of your children!

POLLIONE
There is no reproach
Which you can make me that I do not
Already feel. But in my heart
The flame is dead - extinguished by a God
Who is the foe of my peace. At my feet
I see the abyss, and therein I cast myself.

FLAVIO
Do you love another?

POLLIONE
Speak softly!
Ah yes, another ? Adalgisa!
You will see her ?
Innocent and laughing with sweetness
And love. She is a priestess in the temple
Of this blood?maddened God ? yet she seems
Like starlight in a troubled sky.

FLAVIO
My wretched friend! And does she
Love you as you do her?

POLLIONE
I am sure she does.

FLAVIO
Do you not fear
The wrath of Norma?

POLLIONE
It will be terrible,
As my remorse already shows me.
In a dream ?

FLAVIO
Tell me.