Under the lindens | Do you remember this lane

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by Pierre Dupont (1821 - 1870)

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Sous les tilleuls

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Vous souvient-il de cette allée,
Qui projetait son ombre au loin
Où la lune à demi voilée
Etait notre unique témoin;
Où subjugué par votre grâce,
J'étais à genoux à vos pieds,
Et vous demandais à voix basse
Si vous m'aimiez.

Vos blanches mains pressaient les miennes,
Tous mes tourments étaient finis;
Comme par d'invisibles chaînes
Je sentais nos deux coeurs unis;
Je n'oublirai jamais le charme
De cette heure, où vous me disiez
Tout en essuyant une larme
Que vous m'aimiez.

Vous ajoutiez, c'est pour la vie!
Après m'avoir longtemps bercé
Cette espérance m'est ravie,
Votre serment s'est effacé.
Sous les tilleuls quand le vent pleure,
Je viens m'asseoir où vous étiez,
Et là je songe encore à l'heure
Où vous m'aimiez.

Text Authorship:

by Pierre Dupont (1821 - 1870) [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 Louis-Étienne-Ernest Rey (1823 - 1909), as Ernest Reyer, "Sous les tilleuls", 1854 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 2, Éd. Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Under the lindens", copyright © 2004, (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: 24
Word count: 123

Under the lindens

Language: English after the French (Français)

Do you remember this lane, 
sending its shadow far ahead, 
where the half-veiled moon 
was our only witness; 
where, conquered by your grace, 
I knelt at your feet 
and asked you in a whisper 
whether you loved me? 

Your white hands clasped mine. 
All my torments were over. 
I felt our hearts unite 
as by invisible chains. 
I will never forget the charm 
of that hour, when, 
wiping a tear away, 
you told me that you loved me. 

You added that it was for life! 
After comforting me for so long, 
this hope has been riven from me. 
Your oath has been blotted out. 
Under the lindens, when the wind cries, 
I come and sit where you sat 
and I dream again of the time 
when you loved me.

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a text in French (Français) by Pierre Dupont (1821 - 1870)
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This text was added to the website: 2004-12-05
Line count: 24
Word count: 129