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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Avant que tu ne t'en ailles
 (Sung text for setting by F. Delius)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT CHI ENG
Avant que tu ne t'en ailles,
Pâle étoile du matin
-- Mille cailles
Chantent, chantent dans le thym. --

Tourne devers le poète
Dont les yeux sont pleins d'amour ;
-- L'alouette
Monte au ciel avec le jour. --

Tourne ton regard que noie
L'aurore dans son azur ;
-- Quelle joie
Parmi les champs de blé mûr! --

Puis fais luire ma pensée
Là-bas -- bien loin, oh, bien loin !
-- La rosée
Gaîment brille sur le foin. --

Dans le doux rêve où s'agite
Ma mie endormie encor...
-- Vite, vite,
Car voici le soleil d'or. --

Composition:

    Set to music by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1919, published 1932 [ voice and piano ], London, Boosey & Hawkes

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 5, first published 1870

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

  • 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
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Before you vanish", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Didier Pelat

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 88

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