Language: French (Français)
Adieu ! je crois qu'en cette vie
Je ne te reverrai jamais.
Dieu passe, il t'appelle et m'oublie ;
En te perdant je sens que je t'aimais.
...
Tu t'en vas pleine d'espérance,
Avec orgueil tu reviendras ;
Mais ceux qui vont souffrir de ton absence,
Tu ne les reconnaîtras pas.
Adieu ! tu vas faire un beau rêve
Et t'enivrer d'un plaisir dangereux ;
Sur ton chemin l'étoile qui se lève
Longtemps encor éblouira tes yeux.
Un jour tu sentiras peut-être
Le prix d'un coeur qui nous comprend,
Le bien qu'on trouve à le connaître,
Et ce qu'on souffre en le perdant.
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,3-5 of the original text.
First published in Revue des Deux Mondes, January 1, 1843.
Composition:
Set to music by Robert Dussaut (1896 - 1969), "Adieu", op. 2 no. 1 (1916), published 1927, stanzas 1,3-5 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], Paris, Éd. Henry Lemoine et Cie
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Language: English after the French (Français)
Farewell! I think that in this life
I will never see you again.
God comes past, calling you and forgetting me.
As I lose you I feel that I loved you.
...
You leave full of hope,
with pride you will return;
but you will not recognise those
who will suffer from your absence.
Farewell! You'll have a beautiful dream
and get high on a dangerous pleasure.
The star that rises on your path
will dazzle your eyes for a long time.
One day perhaps you will feel
the value of a heart full of understanding,
and the wellbeing that comes from recognising it,
and how much one suffers from its loss.
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