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Translation
Imperial violets
You know that now there can be no spring
if you are not here, violet seller1,
the spring has come and I know why that was,
Amongst the flowers that you offer, you are like a flower.
I think that in that French season2
you were more than a gipsy, princess,
Violet of spain,
you, in a foreign land
live for the memory of that love.
I found a nightingale which came to sigh:
To what end do I desire love if nobody is going to love me?
A spray of violets which looks great in the buttonhole,
I feel like the emperor of impeial violet.
It was a springtime sky
when the violet seller said to me:
You buy from me me violets, which are the best3,
they're going to bring you luck, your luck is my flower.
Return to your corner of the Alhambra
where the moon paints your gipsy dances,
Violet of Spain,
You, in a foreign land
live giving meaning to my love,
love...
- 1. violetera: a female streetseller of violets
- 2. I think corte here means the time during which grass and grains are cut (la siega in some places, el corte in others) but it's also punning on a court, where princes and princesses may be found; but I'm worried that use of el corte for la siega may happen only on the wrong side of the Atlantic to fit in with "French"
- 3. or "the first" - primera can mean either
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Submitted by 
michealt on 2015-01-15
michealt on 2015-01-15Added in reply to request by 
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