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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)
Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Adieux à la mer
 (Sung text for setting by F. Grast)
 See original
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!

 ... 

Ah! berce, berce, berce encore,
Berce pour la dernière fois,
Berce cet enfant qui t'adore,
Et qui depuis sa tendre aurore
N'a rêvé que l'onde et les bois!

Le Dieu qui décora le monde
De ton élément gracieux,
Afin qu'ici tout se réponde,
Fit les cieux pour briller sur l'onde,
L'onde pour réfléchir les cieux.

 ... 

Partout, sur ta rive chérie,
Où l'amour éveilla mon coeur,
Mon âme, à sa vue attendrie,
Trouve un asile, une patrie,
Et des débris de son bonheur,

Flotte au hasard : sur quelque plage
Que tu me fasses dériver,
Chaque flot m'apporte une image;
Chaque rocher de ton rivage
Me fait souvenir ou rêver...

Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,5-6,17-18 of the original text.

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

Composition:

    Set to music by François Gabriel Grast (1803 - 1871), "Adieux à la mer", stanzas 1-2,5-6,17-18

Text Authorship:

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

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • 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


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 90
Word count: 502

Murmur around my skiff
 (Sung text translation for setting by F. Grast)
 See original
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!

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,5-6,17-18 of the original text.

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Laura Stanfield Prichard, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) 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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This text was added to the website: 2016-02-25
Line count: 15
Word count: 88

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