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!
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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!
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De l'infini sublime image,
De flots en flots l'oeil emporté
Te suit en vain de plage en plage,
L'esprit cherche en vain ton rivage,
Comme ceux de l'éternité.
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,2,5,9 of the original text.
Note: the Unger score has "Jettant" in stanza 1, line 4, word 1, in all repetitions.
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- 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
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Line count: 90
Word count: 502
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the French (Français)
Mormora intorno alla mia navicella,
o dolce mare le cui onde delicate,
come un'amante fedele,
piangono un compianto eterno
su questi frammenti di poesia.
Quanto amo fluttuare sulla tua onda, quando dalla cima della roccia
l'arancio, la vite fertile,
spandono sui tuoi flutti profondi
l'ombra, propizia al nocchiero!
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