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Songs of Don Quixote
Song Cycle by Jacques François Antoine Ibert (1890 - 1962)
View original-language texts alone: Chansons de Don Quichotte
Ce château neuf, ce nouvel édifice Tout enrichi de marbre et de porphyre Qu'amour bâtit château de son empire où tout le ciel a mis son artifice, Est un rempart, un fort contre le vice, Où la vertueuse maîtresse se retire, Que l'oeil regarde et que l'esprit admire Forçant les coeurs à lui faire service. C'est un château, fait de telle sorte Que nul ne peut approcher de la porte Si des grands rois il n'a sauvé sa race Victorieux, vaillant et amoureux. Nul chevalier tant soit aventureux Sans être tel ne peut gagner la place.
This new castle, this new building, enriched with marble and porphyry, where love built a castle for his empire and all of heaven added their skills, a rampart, a fortress against vice, is whose virtuous mistress hides herself away, that the eye beholds and the spirit admires, forcing hearts to her service. It is a castle, made in such a way that none may approach its door unless he has saved his people from the Great Kings, victorious, valiant and loving. No knight, no matter how adventurous, can enter without being such a person.
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- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
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Un an me dure la journée [ ... ]
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- by Alexandre Arnoux (1884 - 1973), copyright ©
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Je veux chanter ici la dame de mes songes [ ... ]
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- by Alexandre Arnoux (1884 - 1973), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Here let me sing the lady of my dreams [ ... ]
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Ne pleure pas Sancho, ne pleure pas mon bon [ ... ]
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- by Alexandre Arnoux (1884 - 1973), copyright ©
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Don't cry, Sancho. Don't cry, my good fellow [ ... ]
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