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Je veux oublier que j'aime, Emportez-moi loin, amis, Emportez-moi loin d'ici, En Flandre, en Espagne, à Naple, en Bohême, Si loin qu'en chemin reste mon souci! Que restera-t'il en moi, en de moi-même, Quand à m'en guérir j'aurai réussi? N'importe, je veux fermer ma blessure Les longues douleurs ne sont pas mon lot! Allons, je veux fermer ma blessure, Partons! Allons par pays courir l'aventure, Pour nous secourer partons au galop! Sans te dire adieu chère créature! Car mon coeur fondrait en sanglot! Nous reposerons, la course assouvie, Dans le serpolet, le baume et le thym! Mais si d'en cueillir il me prend envie Détournez mes doigts d'un fatal butin, Car ce fut ainsi qu'elle prit ma vie, Sans en rien savoir par un frais matin! J'étais à genoux parmi la bruyère. Partons, mes amis, partons! je soif de courir. Que mon cheval jette un vent sa crinière, Voyons l'horizon devant nous s'ouvrir. Ah, partez sans moi! l'âme prisonnière Aime sa prison - et veut y mourir!
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Text Authorship:
- by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889), "Départ", written 1855, appears in Les Pariétaires, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Michel Lévy frères, first published 1855 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Départ", 1867, published 1885 [ tenor and piano ], from Quinze mélodies, deux chœurs, no. 5, Éd. Hartmann & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Départ", CG 369 (1868), published 1869 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "Je veux oublier" [ high voice and piano ], from Troisième recueil de mélodies de V. Massé, no. 8, Éditions Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 26
Word count: 166
I want to forget that I have loved; Take me away, friends, Take me away from here, To Flanders, to Spain, to Naples, to Bohemia, So far that my cares lie in the road! What will be left in me, inside myself, When I’ve suceeded in curing myself? No worries, I want to heal my wound: Lengthy suffering will not be my fate! Let’s go, I want to heal my wound, Let’s leave! Let’s adventure from country to country, And let’s leave at a gallop to help us on our way Without saying goodbye to you, dear creature! Because my heart would melt in sobs! We’ll rest, when our race is run, In the wild thyme, basalm and French thyme! But if I want to pick them Pull my fingers away from the fatal booty, For in this way she took my life Without realizing it one fresh morning! I was on my knees in the heather. Let’s go, my friends, let’s go! I'm longing to ride off. May my horse let the wind ripple through his mane, Let’s watch the horizon opening before us. Oh, go without me! This prisoner’s soul Loves his prison - and wants to die!
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Translations of title(s):
"Je veux oublier" = "I want to forget"
"Départ" = "Departure"
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889), "Départ", written 1855, appears in Les Pariétaires, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Michel Lévy frères, first published 1855
This text was added to the website: 2018-01-07
Line count: 26
Word count: 199