French (Français) translations of Huit Mélodies, opus 32

by Edouard Flament (1880 - 1958)

1. Dernier vœu  [sung text not yet checked]
by Edouard Flament (1880 - 1958), "Dernier vœu", op. 32 (Huit Mélodies) no. 4 (1918) [ baritone or bass and piano ], Paris, La Parisienne G. Lorette
Language: French (Français) 
Voilà longtemps que je vous aime :
-- L'aveu remonte à dix-huit ans ! --
Vous êtes rose, je suis blême ;
J'ai les hivers, vous les printemps.

Des lilas blancs de cimetière
Près de mes tempes ont fleuri ;
J'aurai bientôt la touffe entière
Pour ombrager mon front flétri.

Mon soleil pâli qui décline
Va disparaître à l'horizon,
Et sur la funèbre colline
Je vois ma dernière maison.

Oh ! que de votre lèvre il tombe
Sur ma lèvre un tardif baiser,
Pour que je puisse dans ma tombe,
Le cœur tranquille, reposer !

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by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
1. Final Wish
Language: French (Français) 
For a long time now I have loved you:
(the avowal goes back eighteen years!).
You are pink, I am pallid;
I have the winters, you the springs.
 
The white lilacs of the graveyard
have blossomed above my temples;
soon I'll have the entire clump
to shade my withered brow.
 
My faded sun now sinking
will vanish over the horizon,
and on the hillside cemetery
I see my final home.
 
Oh that from your lips there might fall 
onto mine a belated kiss,
so that in my grave I might
rest with a tranquil heart!

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