Her hand gathered the roses

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by Lucien Paté (1845 - 1939)

Translation © by Amy Pfrimmer

Pour moi sa main cueillait des roses

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Pour moi sa main cueillait des roses
A ce buisson,
Comme elle encore à peine écloses,
Chère moisson.

La gerbe, hélas! en est fanée
Comme elle aussi;
La moissonneuse moissonée
Repose ici.

Mais sur la tombe qui vous couvre,
Ô mes amours!
Une églantine, qui s'entr'ouvre,
Sourit toujours.

Et, sous le buisson qui surplombe,
Quand je reviens,
Une voix me dit sous la tombe:
"Je me souviens."

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Text Authorship:

by Lucien Paté (1845 - 1939), "Les roses", appears in Poésies, Paris, Éd. Charpentier, first published 1878 [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 César Franck (1822 - 1890), "Chant", alternate title: "Lied", FWV. 83, CFF. 154 (1873), published 1893 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernest Tessier (1851 - 1909), as Ernest Lavigne, "Les roses" [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English [singable] (Samuel Byrne) , "For me alone she culled the roses"
ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2019, (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: 16
Word count: 67

Her hand gathered the roses

Language: English after the French (Français)

Her hand gathered the roses 
from this bush for me alone;
As she had barely even bloomed, 
dearest harvest. 

The bouquet is faded, alas, 
as she is also faded; 
The harvesters’ harvest 
rests here. 

But on the tomb that covers you, 
O my beloved, 
An eglantine (sweet rose briar) grows there, 
half-opened and always smiling! 

And under the overhanging bush,
when I return, 
a voice from the grave says to me, 
“I remember.”

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Translations of title(s):
"Chant" = "Song"
"Lied" = "Song"
"Les roses" = "The roses"

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2019 by Amy Pfrimmer, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Lucien Paté (1845 - 1939), "Les roses", appears in Poésies, Paris, Éd. Charpentier, first published 1878
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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 73