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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

L'étranger
 (Sung text for setting by J. Barraqué)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Qui aimes-tu le mieux, homme énigmatique,  ...  ? 
  Ton père, ta mère, ta sœur  ...  ton frère ?
- Je n'ai ni père, ni mère, ni sœur, ni frère.
- Tes amis ?
- Vous vous servez là d'une parole dont le sens 
  m'est restée jusqu'à ce jour inconnu.
- Ta patrie ?
- J'ignore sous quelle latitude elle est située.
- La beauté ?
- Je l'aimerais volontiers, déesse et immortelle.
- L'or ?
- Je le hais comme vous haïssez Dieu.
- Eh ! qu'aimes-tu donc, extraordinaire étranger ?
- J'aime les nuages. Les nuages qui passent... 
  là-bas...là-bas les merveilleux nuages !

Composition:

    Set to music by Jean Barraqué (1928 - 1973), "L'étranger" [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "L'étranger", appears in Le Spleen de Paris -- ou Petits poèmes en prose, no. 1, first published 1869

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The stranger", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-04-03
Line count: 15
Word count: 86

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