Una nave da guerra

English Libretto or Translation:

Butterfly and Suzuki run towards the terrace.

SUZUKI
A warship ...

BUTTERFLY
White, white ...
the American flag of the stars ...
Or governs to anchor.
he takes a telescope on the table and runs on the terrace to observe
all trembling with emotion, he points the telescope at the port and tells Suzuki:
Hold me the hand that I deny the name,
The name, the name.
Here it is: Abraham Lincoln!
he gives Suzuki a telescope and returns to the room in great excitement
Everyone has lied! everyone, everyone!
I only knew it, only I love it.
to Suzuki
Do you see the doubt your doubt?
Came! came!
came! right in the point
that everyone said: cry and despair ...
My love triumphs! my love;
my fe 'triumphs whole:
and come back and love me!
jubilant, runs on the terrace
to Suzuki who followed her on the terrace
Shake that cherry leaf
and it floods me with flowers.
I wanted to dive into the smelling rain
the brow in front.
sobbing for tenderness

SUZUKI
calming
Madam, please ... that cry ...

BUTTERFLY
return with Suzuki in the room
No, I laugh, I laugh!
How long will we have to wait?
What do you think? An hour!

SUZUKI
More!

BUTTERFLY
Two hours maybe.
going around the room
Everything, everything is full of flowers,
like the night is sparks.
he mentions Suzuki to go into the garden
It goes pei fior.

Suzuki starts; arrived on the terrace, she turns to Butterfly.

SUZUKI
from the terrace
All the flowers?

BUTTERFLY
to Suzuki cheerfully
All the flowers, all, all.
Peach, violet, gelsomin,
how much of a tuft, or of grass, or of a tree bloomed.

SUZUKI
in the garden at the foot of the terrace
A squalor in winter will be all the garden!
catches flowers in the garden

BUTTERFLY
All spring I want you to smell here.

SUZUKI
from the garden
A squalor in winter will be all the garden.
appears at the foot of the terrace with a bundle of flowers that protrudes to Butterfly
To you, madam.

BUTTERFLY
taking the flowers from Suzuki's hands
Cogline again.
Butterfly arranges flowers in vases, while Suzuki still goes down into the garden.

SUZUKI
from the garden
Often you have to cover this hedge
far, weeping in the deserted immensity.

BUTTERFLY
The attic arrived, nothing more I asked the sea;
I cried to the clod, it suosi fior gives me.

SUZUKI
appears again on the terrace with hands full of flowers.
Spoglio is the vegetable garden.

BUTTERFLY
Spoglio is the vegetable garden?
Come, help me.

SUZUKI
Rose at the threshold.
Butterfly and Suzuki scatter flowers everywhere

BUTTERFLY
All Spring

SUZUKI
All Spring

BUTTERFLY
I want you to oil here.

SUZUKI
I want you to smell here.

BUTTERFLY
We sow around april,

SUZUKI
Let's sow around april.

BUTTERFLY we
sow around april!

SUZUKI
All spring, all, all.