La pobra flor li deia a la papallona a l’aire

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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

La Pauvre Fleur

(Sung text for setting by A. Cogni)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT CHI DUT ENG ITA SPA

La pauvre fleur disait au papillon céleste :
- Ne fuis pas !
Vois comme nos destins sont différents. Je reste,
Tu t'en vas !

Pourtant nous nous aimons, nous vivons sans les hommes
Et loin d'eux,
Et nous nous ressemblons, et l'on dit que nous sommes
Fleurs tous deux !

Mais, hélas ! l'air t'emporte et la terre m'enchaîne.
Sort cruel !
Je voudrais embaumer ton vol de mon haleine
Dans le ciel !

Mais non, tu vas trop loin ! - Parmi des fleurs sans nombre
Vous fuyez,
Et moi je reste seule à voir tourner mon ombre
A mes pieds.

Tu fuis, puis tu reviens ; puis tu t'en vas encore
Luire ailleurs.
Ainsi me trouves-tu toujours à chaque aurore
Toute en pleurs !

Oh ! pour que notre amour coule des jours fidèles,
Ô mon roi,
Prends comme moi racine, ou donne-moi des ailes
Comme à toi !

Composition:

Adolfo Cogni

Text Authorship:

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1834, appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 27a, first published 1835

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Elena Mariani) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Mercedes Vivas) , no title, copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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La pobre flor

(Sung text translation for setting by A. Cogni)

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Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

La pobra flor li deia a la papallona a l’aire:
-- No te’n vagis!
Mira que diferents són els nostres destins. Jo resto,
tu te’n vas!

I tanmateix ens estimem, vivim sense els homes
i lluny d’ells,
ens assemblem, i diuen que som
flors totes dues!

Però, ai las! L’aire se t’emporta i la terra m’encadena.
Sort cruel!
Voldria flairar el teu vol amb el meu alè
al cel!

Però no, tu vas massa lluny! Enmig de flors sens nombre
tu te’n vas,
i jo resto sola per veure girar la meva ombra
als meus peus.

Tu te’n vas, després tornes; després encara te’n vas
a lluir en una altre lloc.
Així sempre em trobes a cada aurora
plena de llàgrimes!

Oh, perquè el nostre amor transcorri en jorns fidels,
oh reina meva,
posa arrels com jo, o dóna’m ales
com les teves!

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a text in French (Français) by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1834, appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 27a, first published 1835
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