Murmur around my skiff

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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Douce mer

(Sung text for setting by G. Bizet)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ITA

Murmure autour de ma nacelle,
Douce mer dont les flots chéris,
Ainsi qu'une amante fidèle,
Jettent une plainte eternelle
Sur ces poétique débris.

Que j'aime à flotter sur ton onde,
À l'heure où du haut du rocher
L'oranger, la vigne féconde,
Versent sur ta vague profonde
Une ombre propice au nocher!

Souvent, dans ma barque sans rame,
Me confiant à ton amour,
Comme pour assoupir mon âme,
Je ferme au branle de ta lame
Mes regards fatigués du jour.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.

Note: the Unger score has "Jettant" in stanza 1, line 4, word 1, in all repetitions.

Composition:

Georges Bizet

Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano

Text Authorship:

by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), "Adieux à la mer", written 1820, appears in Nouvelles méditations poétiques, no. 20

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ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Dolce mare", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Murmur around my skiff

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Bizet)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

Murmur around my skiff,
Gentle seas, whose dear waves,
Like a faithful lover,
Throw an eternal moan
Over her poetic debris.

How I love to float on your swells,
At the hour where from on the top of the rock
The orange tree, and the fecund vine,
Pour onto that deep billow
A favorable shadow for the ferryman!

Often, in my boat without oars,
Trusting in your love,
As if to calm my soul,
I close, to the crashing of your waves,
My eyes, tired of the day.

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