If there is a charming lawn

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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Translation © by Amy Pfrimmer

Rêve d'amour

(Sung text for setting by G. Fauré)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT CHI ENG ENG ITA

S'il est un charmant gazon
  Que le ciel arrose,
Où naisse en toute saison
  Quelque fleur éclose,
Où l'on cueille à pleine main
Lys, chèvrefeuille et jasmin,
J'en veux faire le chemin
  Où ton pied se pose !

S'il est un sein bien aimant
  Dont l'honneur dispose !
Dont le ferme dévoûement
  N'ait rien de morose,
Si toujours ce noble sein
Bat pour un digne dessein,
J'en veux faire le coussin
  Où ton front se pose !

S'il est un rêve d'amour,
  Parfumé de rose,
Où l'on trouve chaque jour
  Quelque douce chose,
Un rêve que Dieu bénit,
Où l'âme à l'âme s'unit,
Oh ! j'en veux faire le nid
  Où ton cœur se pose !

Composition:

Gabriel Fauré

Text Authorship:

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), title 1: "S'il est un charmant gazon", title 2: "Nouvelle chanson sur un vieil air", appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 22, first published 1834

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CHI Chinese (中文) (Yan-Jiang Che) , "如果有一個迷人的草地", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "If there be a lovely grassy plot", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English [singable] (Charles Fonteyn Manney) , "If I knew a meadow fair", first published 1911
ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Sogno d'amore", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Dream of love

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Fauré)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

If there is a charming lawn 
  which heaven waters, 
where appearing in every season 
  is some blooming flower,
Where one picks hands full 
  of lilies, honeysuckle and jasmine, 
I would like to make of it a pathway 
  where your foot might step!

If there is a loving breast 
  where honor lives! 
Whose firm devotion 
  is never morose,
If always this noble breast 
beats for a worthy purpose, 
I wish to make of it the cushion
  on which your head might rest!

If there is a dream of love 
  perfumed with roses, 
where every day we find 
  some sweet thing,
a dream that God blesses, 
where souls are united, 
oh! I wish to make of it the nest
  where your heart might remain!

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a text in French (Français) by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), title 1: "S'il est un charmant gazon", title 2: "Nouvelle chanson sur un vieil air", appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 22, first published 1834
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Word count: 123