Twilight | When I sit alone

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Crépuscule

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG

Quand sur la colline,
Seul, je vais m'asseoir!
Quand le jour décline
Dans la paix du soir!
Dis! alors ne sais-tu pas?
Car mon coeur entend tout bas
Murmurer ta voix divine!

Loin de ton sourire
La douleur me suit!
Tout me semble dire:
Le bonheur te fuit!
Mais que ton regard charmant
Me caresse doucement,
Dans tes yeux mon âme expire!

Si tu m'es ravie,
Il me faut mourir!
Car sans toi, ma vie
N'est plus que souffrir!
Mais rêver et vivre à deux,
Ici-bas c'est vivre, au cieux!
Viens rêver, ma douce amie.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 'P.' and 'M.' ) [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 Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Crépuscule", CG 368 (1843?), published 1866 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Twilight", copyright © 1997, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Dusk", 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: 21
Word count: 95

Twilight

Language: English after the French (Français)

When I sit alone
On the hill,
When the day draws
To peaceful eve!
Say! Don't you know?
For my heart hears your divine voice
Murmur soft and low.

Pain follows me
When am far from your smile.
Everything seems to tell me:
Happiness is fleeing you.
But when your charming glance
Softly caresses me,
My soul dies in your eyes!

If you are taken from me,
I must die!
Without you, my life
Is endless suffering!
But to dream and live together,
Here below, is to live in Heaven!
Come and dream, sweetheart.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 94