Florentine Serenade | Star whose beauty shines

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

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Sérénade florentine

(Sung text for setting by H. Duparc)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI DUT ENG FIN

Étoile, dont la beauté luit
Comme un diamant dans la nuit,
Regarde vers ma bien-aimée
Dont la paupière s'est fermée,
Et fais descendre sur ses yeux
La bénédiction des cieux.

Elle s'endort : par la fenêtre
En sa chambre heureuse pénètre ;
Sur sa blancheur, comme un baiser,
Viens jusqu'à l'aube te poser,
Et que sa pensée alors rêve
D'un astre d'amour qui se lève.

Confirmed with L'Illusion, Troisième édition, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, p. 11.

Composition:

Henri Duparc

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Text Authorship:

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Sérénade florentine", appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "佛罗伦萨小夜曲", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , "Florentijnse Serenade", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Florentine Serenade", copyright © 2015
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Florencelainen serenadi", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Florentine Serenade

(Sung text translation for setting by H. Duparc)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

Star whose beauty shines
like a diamond in the night
Look upon my beloved
whose eyelids are shut
and upon her eyes let fall
the benediction of the skies.

She sleeps... Through the window
enter her happy chamber;
upon her whiteness, like a kiss,
rest until sunrise
so that she may dream
of a star of love that is rising.

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