Vers les estrelles | El gran vaixell ha salpat per la mar!

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by Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863 - 1936), as Paul Gravollet

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Vers les étoiles

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT

Le grand bateau s’en est allé sur la mer !
Oh ! vents, gonflez ses voiles !
Tiens droit toujurs, le gouvernail de fer,
Pilote on va vers les étoiles !

Ohé ! ho ! Ohé ! mousse, grimpe au mat ;
Regarde à l’horizon mauve ;
Les astres, ne le vois-tu pas ?
Derrière les nuages qui se sauvent ?

Chacun à son banc! ramez les garçons,
Il nous faut ces soir aborder au ciel.
Tous ces oiseaux blancs nous les dépassons,
Nos désirs ont de grandes ailes !

Le poupe blanchir aux baisers des lames.
Et dans son sillage d’argent
Le grand bateau porte now âmes
A celui qui les attend !

Le grand bateau s’en est allé sur la mer.
Oh! vents, gonflez ses voiles !
Tiens droit toujurs, le gouvernail de fer,
Pilote on va vers les étoiles.

Text Authorship:

by Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863 - 1936), as Paul Gravollet, "Vers les étoiles", written 1903, appears in Les Frissons, no. 13 [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-Gaston Levadé (1869 - 1948), "Vers les étoiles", 1903?, published 1905 [ high voice and piano ], from Frissons, no. 13, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Vers les estrelles", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Laura Stanfield Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-30
Line count: 20
Word count: 128

Vers les estrelles

Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

El gran vaixell ha salpat per la mar!
Oh! Vents, ompliu les seves veles!
Agafa ferm el timó de ferro,
timoner, anem vers les estrelles!

Au! Grumet, puja al pal;
mira cap a l'horitzó malva;
les estrelles... no les veus?
Darrere dels núvols que fugen?

Tothom al seu banc! Remeu, nois,
hem d'arribar al cel aquesta mateixa nit.
Estem avançant tots aquests ocells blancs,
els nostres desitjos tenen ales poderoses!

La popa es torna blanca amb el bes de les onades.
i en la seva estela argentada
el gran vaixell ara porta les nostres ànimes
vers el qui les està esperant!

El gran vaixell ha salpat per la mar!
Oh! Vents, ompliu les seves veles!
Agafa ferm el timó de ferro,
timoner, anem vers les estrelles!

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Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2026 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863 - 1936), as Paul Gravollet, "Vers les étoiles", written 1903, appears in Les Frissons, no. 13
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This text was added to the website: 2026-10-03
Line count: 20
Word count: 126