We mourn our griefs, each of us

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by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926)

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Les Larmes

(Sung text for setting by A. Flégier)

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Language: French (Français)

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Pleurons nos chagrins, chacun le nôtre,
Une larme tombe, puis une autre,
Toi, que pleures-tu ? Ton doux pays,
Tes parents lointains, ta fiancée.
Moi, mon existence dépensée
    En vœux trahis.

Pleurons nos chagrins, chacun le nôtre.
Une larme tombe, puis une autre.
Semons dans la mer ces pâles fleurs.
À notre sanglot qui se lamente 
Elle répondra par la tourmente
    Des flots hurleurs.

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Pleurons nos chagrins, chacun le nôtre.
Une larme tombe, puis une autre.
Peut-être toi-même, ô triste mer,
Mer au goût de larme âcre et salée,
Es-tu de la terre inconsolée
    Le pleur amer.

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Text Authorship:

by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926), "Larmes", appears in La Mer, in 6. Étant de quart, no. 17, Paris, Éd. Maurice Dreyfous, first published 1886

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GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , "Tränen", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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We mourn our griefs, each of us

(Sung text translation for setting by A. Flégier)

See original

Language: English after the French (Français)

We mourn our griefs, each of us,
One tear follows, then another,
You, who do you weep for? Your sweet homeland,
Your faraway parents, your fiancée.
For me, I weep for my existence, wasted
    On broken vows.

We mourn our griefs, each of us.
One tear follows, then another.
Let's sew the sea with these pale flowers.
To our sobs of lament
the sea will respond with the turmoil
    Of howling waves.

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We mourn our griefs, each of us.
One tear follows, then another.
Perhaps you yourself, oh sad sea, 
Sea that tastes of acrid, salty tears,
Are, for the inconsolable earth,
    Weeping bitterly.

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