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A Grand-Daughter’s Adieu

Dear Beloved Nannu,

To you today I can only offer
A prayer and also shed a tear,
My sobbing your loss you do not hear
How I wish to be there with you near!

Whilst for the last time today
To your beloved Church you wind your way
Like you did every early morning,
Young and old will follow in mourning.

Dearest Nannu,
In soul and in spirit I will then fly
The organ to find closed behind the altar
While for the last time there you lie
No more singing but silent like mortar.

You will not come out to share
The Holy Eucharist for you reserved
But in His presence I’m sure you find
The reward you rightly so much deserved.

Childhood memories rush to my mind,
Tenderly and lovingly holding me on your lap,
In the garden among flowers watching me play
Both eyes on me guarding against any mishap.

When I grew up and older you became
And years seemed passing like a nightmare
You were thrilled that music I took up
And that singing was yours and mine to share.

Now you are gone, My Nannu Dear,
Destiny kept me away from you,
But from miles away I vividly hear
What you said in pain “My dear, Adieu”.

Adieu Dear Nannu, Adieu!
Your ever-loving Grand-Daughter
Tanya.

Paris 13 January 2004.

IL-GHANJA LI DWIET
Tislima lis-Surmast Nazzareno Refalo fil-mewt tieghu (9/1/2004)

Nazzarenu miet!
Il-Missier
In-Nannu
Il-Buznannu
It-Tenur
Il-Kompozitur
In-NISRANI SHIH
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“Vittorja-Vittorja-Vittorja”

Fil-ferh fin-niket
Fil-knejjes
Fil-palk
Mal-baned
Mad-daqq
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
Panis Angelicus
Fit-tigijiet
Ave Maria

Taht seher
Bakketta
Mill-pinna
Mill-pjanu
Mill-orgni tal-gholi
Mill-orgni tal-art
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“Et incarnatus est”

Fil-hidma
Fis-serh
Fid-dar – familja
Fl-iskola mat-tfal
Mal-kbar
U maz-zghar
Fil-bidu fit-tmiem
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“Tantum ergo Sacramentum”

Kont ragel
Matur
Fis-snin fil-hsieb
Theggeg u tqawwi
Pariri u taghlim
Ezempju kristall
Imhabba u rispett
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“Gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo”

Batejt
Hassejt
Hsadt
Vokazzjonijiet
Familji – ahwa
Nepputijiet
Qraba – hbieb
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“Tu es sacerdos”

Fil-gabra
Fis-skiet
Bil-hsieb u bil-kliem
Izzebbeg – Ruzarju
Ta’ Guda devot
U tlissen
Fit-talb
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“In ora mortis ora pro nobis”

Tislima minn qalbi
Ghalija
Mill-boghod
Ghal huti
Tax-Xaghra
Migbura
F’talba herqana
Lill-Ghanja li dwiet
Ta’ Antonju Missierna
L-Innijiet.

Hajr intennilek habib
Mill-qiegh tat-tnehid
Ta’ dak li ghamilt
Minn qalbek
Minn ruhek
Ghal Alla
Familja – pajjizek
Fl-arti tal-hoss
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“Hallina Mulej naghtuk qima”

U dwiet it-Tromba tal-ahhar
U siktet
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
Biex b’noti
Ta’ “Sanctus” u “Gloria”
Tinghaqad fil-gholi
Alleluia
Mal-Mastru l-Haruf
Ma’ David
Mal-Angli ghalenija
Tidwi ghal dejjem
Il-Ghanja li dwiet
“Te Deum laudamus”

Mons. Arc. Ewkaristiku Sultana
Edinburgh, Skozja
12/01/2004