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by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)

O Déesse, ô nuit, pardonne aux méchants
Language: French (Français)  after the English 
Our translations:  GER
O Déesse, ô nuit, pardonne aux méchants
Qui troublés par la calomnie
Ont tué ta vierge bénie.
Ils font retentir leurs funèbres chants
Autour de la tombe honorée
Où dort sa dépouille sacrée.
Mêle à nos sanglots un gémissement
Ah ! Déplore, ô nuit, sa fin cruelle ;
Aide nous à pleurer sur elle
Amèrement
Laissez vos morts surgir, vous, sépulcres avides
Demeurez vides pour un moment
Tandis que ce lugubre thrène
Sous les arceaux monte
Plaintivement, Ah!

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Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Chansons de Shakespeare, Éd. Léon Chailley, first published 1896 [an adaptation] [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Much Ado About Nothing, Act V, Scene 2
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "Chant funèbre", op. 28 no. 4 (1897), published 1914 [four-part women's chorus and piano], Paris, Édition Mutuelle [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English [singable] (Thomas Gwynn Jones) , "Chant funèbre", first published 1914
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Grabgesang", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Bertram Kottmann

This text was added to the website: 2015-07-03
Line count: 15
Word count: 76

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