Note 716 — APPENDIX
Reading edition
Ó triste da minha vida, Ó triste da vida minha, Quem me dera ir contigo Onde tu vaes, andorinha. (O how sad my life is, O how sad my plight! Would I might go with thee, swallow, in thy flight!)
recalls the French Si j’étais hirondelle Que je pusse voler, Sur votre sein, ma belle, J’irais me reposer (A swallow I Would be to fly And take my rest Upon thy breast).