This pleasant song, to a text by Victor Hugo, is designed to show off Donizetti's gift for simple melody, but it also seems to make sure to remind the listener that Donizetti is more than a tune-spinner.

The first verse is a highly predictable and hummable melody, which the accompaniment closes with a final chord, and then voice and piano start on a new theme, to a much more chordal accompaniment, interspersed with the first melodic line as a refrain. While this does give the composition rather a studied air, it does not destroy it as a more pedantic or less melodically-gifted composer might have ended up doing.

The text translates as "The dawn is born, and your door is closed, oh, my beauty, why sleep? When the rose awakens, aren't you going to awaken? Oh, my charmer, listen to the lover who sings and weeps, too. Everything knocks at your blessed door. The sunrise says, 'I am day.' The bird says, 'I am harmony, ' and my heart says, 'I am love.' Oh, my charmer, listen to the lover who sings and weeps, too. I adore you, angel, I love you, woman. God, who created me for you, made my love for your soul and my glance for your beauty. Oh, my charmer, listen to the lover who sings and weeps, too."

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