La dernière feuille
See originalLanguage: French (Français)
Dans la forêt chauve et rouillée
Il ne reste plus au rameau
Qu'une pauvre feuille oubliée,
Rien qu'une feuille et qu'un oiseau,
Il ne reste plus dans mon âme
Qu'un seul amour pour y chanter;
Mais le vent d'automne que brame
Ne permet pas de l'écouter.
L'oiseau s'en va, la feuille tombe,
L'amour s'éteint, car c'est l'hiver.
Petit oiseau, viens sur ma tombe
Chanter, quand l'arbre sera vert.
Text first published as "L'hiver" in the journal "Don Quichotte", April 30, 1837.
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The last leaf", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Language: English after the French (Français)
In the bare and blighted forest
nothing now remains on the branches
except a poor forgotten leaf,
nothing but a leaf and a bird.
Nothing now remains in my heart
except one love which is there to sing.
But the howling autumn wind
prevents it from being heard.
The bird flies away, the leaf falls,
the love stops burning, for it is winter.
Oh little bird, come to my tomb
to sing when the tree is green again.
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