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Je pense à toi quand vient l'aurore ; Quand la nuit vient, j'y pense encore ; Je pense à toi !... Daigne un instant, je t'en supplie, Ô toi que jamais je n'oublie, Penser à moi ! À toi mon cœur ! À toi mon âme ! Mon être entier pour toi se pâme ! Je suis à toi !... Par pitié ! fais-moi dans ta vie, La douce place que j'envie ; Donne-la-moi ! Ne sais-tu pas ? Je désespère ! Mais la souffrance encor m'est chère ; Elle est pour toi !... [Oh ! qu'un jour ton âme attendrie Souffre aussi, saignante et meurtrie, Souffre pour moi !]1 Alors qu'un songe me visite, Qui vois-je apparaître bien vite ? C'est toujours toi !... Laisse aussi parfois, je t'en prie, Laisse ta chaste rêverie Errer sur moi !
C. Widor sets stanzas 1-3, 2
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Un rêve. Poëme par Sautter de Beauregard, Paris, Sandoz et Fischbacher, 1875, pages 86-88.
1 Widor: "Puisse un jour ton âme attendrie/ laisser sa douce reverie/ errer sur moi!"Text Authorship:
- by A. Sautter de Beauregard, Comte , no title, appears in Un rêve. Poëme par Sautter de Beauregard, Paris, Sandoz et Fischbacher, first published 1875 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Je pense à toi", op. 47 no. 4, stanzas 1-3,2 [ high voice and piano ], from Quarante mélodies, no. 28, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-05
Line count: 24
Word count: 121
I think of you when the dawn comes; When the night comes, I think of you again; I think of you! Please take a moment, I beg you, o you whom I never forget, think of me! My heart is yours! My soul is yours! My entire being pines for you! I am yours!... For pity’s sake, in your life, give me the sweet place that I desire; Give it to me! Don’t you know that I despair, but suffering is still dear to me. It is for you! Oh! One day, may your soul, while waiting to leave its sweet reverie, drift over me! [... ... ... ... ... ...]
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Note: this is a translation of Widor's version.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by A. Sautter de Beauregard, Comte , no title, appears in Un rêve. Poëme par Sautter de Beauregard, Paris, Sandoz et Fischbacher, first published 1875
This text was added to the website: 2023-06-05
Line count: 24
Word count: 105