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Mélodies

Song Cycle by G. Bourgoin

4. Ex‑Voto  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
La barque est petite et la mer immense,
La vague nous jette au ciel en courroux,
Le ciel nous renvoie au flot en démence:
Près du mât rompu prions à genoux!
 
De nous à la tombe il n'est qu'une planche:
Peut-être ce soir, dans un lit amer,
Sous un froid linceul, fait d'écume blanche,
Irons-nous dormir, veillés par l'éclair!
 
Fleur du paradis, sainte Notre-Dame,
Si bonne aux marins en péril de mort,
Apaise le vent, fais [taire]1 la lame,
Et pousse du doigt notre esquif au port.
 
Nous te donnerons, si tu nous délivres,
Une belle robe en papier d'argent,
Un cierge à festons pesant quatre livres,
Et, pour ton Jésus, un petit Saint-Jean.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), title 1: "La tempête", title 2: "Pendant la tempête", written 1840, appears in España, first published 1845

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "V bouři"
  • ENG English (Gregory Ristow) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Bronisława Ostrowska) , "W Burzy. Modlitwa", Kraków, first published 1911

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First published April 1844 in the revue L'Artiste

1 Fournier: "tomber"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 115
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