In your heart moonlight lies dormant

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by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Chanson triste

(Sung text for setting by H. Duparc)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: DUT ENG GER GER JPN SPA

Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune,
Un doux clair de lune d'été,
Et pour fuir la vie importune,
Je me noierai dans ta clarté.

J'oublierai les douleurs passées,
Mon amour, quand tu berceras
Mon triste cœur et mes pensées
Dans le calme aimant de tes bras.

Tu prendras ma tête malade,
Oh ! quelquefois, sur tes genoux,
Et lui diras une ballade
Qui semblera parler de nous ;

Et dans tes yeux pleins de tristesse,
Dans tes yeux alors je boirai
Tant de baisers et de tendresses
Que peut-être je guérirai.

Composition:

Henri Duparc

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Text Authorship:

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Chanson triste", appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, first published 1875

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DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright ©
GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Xavier Rivera) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 16
Word count: 96

Sad song

(Sung text translation for setting by H. Duparc)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

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In your heart moonlight lies dormant,
A gentle moonlight of summer;
And to flee from the troubles of life,
I will drown myself in your brightness.

I will forget past griefs,
My love, when you rock
My unhappy heart and my thoughts
In the loving tranquility of your arms.

You will lay my anxious head,
Oh! - sometimes - upon your lap,
And you will utter to it a ballad
That will seem to speak of us;

And from your eyes so full of sadness,
From your eyes I will then drink
So many kisses and so much tenderness
That perhaps at last I will be healed.

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