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Quand les cloches du soir, dans leur lente volée
Feront descendre l'heure au fond de la vallée,
Quand tu n'auras d'amis ni d'amours près de toi,
Pense à moi ! Pense à moi !
Car les cloches du soir avec leur voix sonore
A ton cœur solitaire iront parler encore,
Et l'air fera vibrer ces mots autour de toi :
Aime-moi ! Aime-moi !
Si les cloches du soir éveillent les alarmes,
Demande au temps ému qui passe entre nos larmes,
Le temps dira toujours qu'il n'a trouvé que toi
Près de moi !
Quand les cloches du soir, si tristes dans l'absence,
Tinteront sur mon ceur ivre de ta présence,
Ah ! c'est le chant du ciel qui sonnera pour toi !
Pour toi et pour moi !
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-4 of the original text.
First published in the revue Le Kaléidoscope, June 1829.
Composition:
- Set to music by George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948), "Les Cloches du Soir", 1929, stanzas 1-4 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with manuscript
Text Authorship:
- by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les cloches du soir", appears in Poésies de 1830, in Poésies inédites, in Mélanges, first published 1829
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- ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 160
When the evening bells, in their slow flight
bring down the hours at the bottom of the Valley,
If you have no friends or loved ones close to you,
think of me! Think of me!
As the evening bells with their sound voices
in your solitary heart will speak again,
and the air vibrates from those words around you:
Love me! Love me!
If the evening bells raise alarm,
asking why turmoil passes between our tears,
time will always tell that it found only you
near me!
When the evening bells, so sad in your absence,
tingle on my heart intoxicated by your presence,
Ah! It is the song of heaven that sounds for you!
For you and for me!
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les cloches du soir", appears in Poésies de 1830, in Poésies inédites, in Mélanges, first published 1829
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