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by François Coppée (1842 - 1908)

Avant que le froid glace les ruisseaux
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI
Avant que le froid glace les ruisseaux
Et voile le ciel de vapeurs moroses,
Écoute chanter les derniers oiseaux,
Regarde fleurir les dernières roses.

Octobre permet un moment encor
Que dans leur éclat les choses demeurent ;
Son couchant de pourpre et ses arbres d’or
Ont le charme pur des beautés qui meurent.

Tu sais que cela ne peut pas durer,
Mon cœur ! mais, malgré la saison plaintive,
Un moment encor tâche d’espérer
Et saisis du moins l’heure fugitive.

Bâtis en Espagne un dernier château,
Oubliant l’hiver, qui frappe à nos portes
Et vient balayer de son dur râteau
Les espoirs brisés et les feuilles mortes.

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Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de François Coppée, Librairie L. Hébert, 1892, Poésies, tome II, pages 349-350.


Text Authorship:

  • by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "Octobre", written 1878, appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 3. Les mois, no. 10, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1878 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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This text was added to the website: 2016-12-05
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