Trois mélodies avec alto

Song Cycle by Frank Bridge (1879 - 1941)

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1. Far, far from each other
 (Sung text)
Language: English 
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Far, far from each other
Our spirits have flown.
And what heart knows another?
Ah! who knows his own?

Blow, ye winds! lift me with you
I come to the wild.
Fold closely, O Nature!
Thine arms round thy child.

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Ah, calm me! restore me
And dry up my tears
On thy high mountain platforms,
Where Morn first appears,

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by Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
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Language: French (Français) 
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Loin, loin l'un de l'autre
Nos esprits se sont envolés.
Et quel cœur en connaît un autre ?
Ah ! qui connaît le sien ?

Soufflez, vents ! emportez-moi avec vous !
Je viens vers la nature.
Serre contre toi , ô nature !
De tes bras ton enfant.

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Ah ! apaise-moi ! réconforte-moi
Et sèche mes larmes,
Sur le sommet de tes hautes montagnes
Où le matin apparaît d'abord.

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2. Where is it that our soul doth go?
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Language: English 
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One thing I'd know : when we have perished,
  Where is it that our soul doth go?
Where is the fire that is extinguished?
  Where is the wind but now did blow?

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by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904)
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Language: French (Français) 
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3. Music, when soft voices die
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Music, when soft voices die,	
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;
And so my thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

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by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)
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Language: French (Français) 
La musique, quand les douces voix meurent,
Résonne dans le souvenir,
Les parfums, quand les douces violettes se fanent,
Vivent dans les sens qu'elles ont excités.

Les pétales de la rose, quand la rose est morte,
Sont amoncelées sur le lit du bien-aimé ;
Et ainsi ont fait mes pensées quand tu es parti,
L'amour lui-même doit s'endormir.

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Translation © by Guy Laffaille