From: 'lucia Di Lammermoor' By. G. Donizetti Poem by Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello

In this opera Edgar gives Lucy a ring as a token of love.
The scandalmongers tell that Edgar is unfaithful to Lucy as well as the girl is unfaithful to her sweetheart.
It isn't true but the couple trusts neither.
That one wasn't the time of the rings.
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I, Lucy (soprano) and Edgar (tenore) :
'My burning sighs
Will get you over the air
In the murmuring sea you will hear
The echo of my moans.
Then shed a bitter tear on this token
Thinking I'd cherish groans and pain.'
(By S. Cammarano. Translated from Italian by P.G.Mazzarello)