Language: French (Français)
Bonheur si doux de mon enfance,
Bonheur plus doux de mon printemps,
Je n'ai plus que la souvenance
De vos courts et joyeux instants.
Triste, sur la rive étrangère,
Je rêve à mon lointain pays,
Et des pleurs mouillent ma paupière
Au souvenir de mes amis.
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Language: English after the French (Français)
Childhood happiness so sweet,
Happiness sweeter than spring,
I have only the memory now
of your short and joyous moments.
Despondent on a foreign shore,
I dream of my distant homeland,
And tears wet my eyelids
at the recollection of my friends.
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