Здесь сирень так быстро увядает | Здесь сирень так быстро увядает

by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)

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Ici‑bas tous les lilas meurent

Language: French (Français)

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Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent,
Tous les chants des oiseaux sont courts,
Je rêve aux étés qui demeurent
    Toujours...

Ici-bas les lèvres effleurent 
Sans rien laisser de leur velours,
Je rêve aux baisers qui demeurent
    Toujours...

Ici-bas, tous les hommes pleurent
Leurs amitiés ou leurs amours;
Je rêve aux couples qui demeurent 
    Toujours...

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Note: quoted in Jules Lemaître's "Vers pour être chantés".

Text Authorship:

by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), "Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent", appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in La Vie intérieure, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Zde"
ENG English [singable] (Samuel Byrne) , "In this world"
GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Hier auf Erden", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ramona Gabriela Peter) , "Quaggiù", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 12
Word count: 53

Здесь сирень так быстро увядает

(Sung text for setting by C. Cui)

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Language: Russian (Русский) after the French (Français)

Здесь сирень так быстро увядает,
И недолго слышо пенье птиц;
О вечно светлых днях я мечтаю, -
Увы, их нет.

Здесь уста, встречаясь в поцелуе,
Не оставляют и следа;
О вечных лобзаньях мечтаю, - 
Увы, их нет!

Всё оплакивают неутешно
потерю дружбы иль любви!
О неизменных чувствах я мечтаю...
Увы, их нет!

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Composition:

César Antonovich Cui

Cinq mélodies

French (Français)

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), "Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent", appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in La Vie intérieure, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-10-20
Line count: 12
Word count: 50