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Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ; Je ne peux plus vous retenir. Que voulez-vous ? Est-ce ma vie ? Ma vie, hélas ! n'est plus à moi ; Il faut me rendre avec ma foi, [Jusqu'aux pleurs que l'on]1 vous envie. Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ; Je ne peux plus vous retenir. Fuyez l'amant qui me fut tendre, Il ne veut pas vous recevoir ; Et si vous voulez me revoir, Allez au ciel, allez m'attendre. Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ; Je ne peux plus vous retenir. Là, quand vous me verrez paraître Si Dieu le veut, volez vers moi. Au Ciel, pour [aimer]2 sans effroi, Quel bonheur de se reconnaître ! Quittez mon cœur, doux souvenir ; Je ne veux plus vous retenir.
Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.
1 Duchambge: "Jusqu'à mes pleurs qu'on"2 Duchambge: "l'aimer"
Text Authorship:
- by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Adieu tout" [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 Pauline Duchambge (1776 - 1858), "Adieu tout" [ voice and piano ]
Score: Société des études Marceline Desbordes-Valmore [external link] [sung text checked 1 time] - by Henri-Pierre Poupard (1901 - 1989), as Henri Sauguet, "Adieu, tout !", 1959, first performed 1959 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois élégies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "Farewell to all of it", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Laura Stanfield Prichard [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2017-01-14
Line count: 20
Word count: 118
Quit my heart, sweet memory; I can hardly remember you. What do you want? Is it my life? My life, alas, is longer my own; I've surrendered it, along with my faith, right down to [the]1 tears [that prove] how much you are desired. Quit my heart, sweet memory; I can hardly remember you. Flee the [memory of the] lover who was tender to me, He will not receive you [with love]; And if you want to see me again, Go to heaven, go and await me. Quit my heart, sweet memory; I can hardly remember you. There, when you see me appear If God wills it, fly to me. In Heaven, [one can] love without fear, What happiness to recognize yourself! Quit my heart, sweet memory; I can hardly remember you.
1 Duchambge: "my"
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Adieu tout"
This text was added to the website: 2024-02-13
Line count: 20
Word count: 133