Wie kläglich und wie grausam

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by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Quel son lamentable et sauvage

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Quel son lamentable et sauvage
Va sonner l'heure de l'adieu!
La mer roule sur le rivage,
Moqueuse, et se souciant peu 
Que ce soit l'heure de l'adieu.

Des oiseaux passent, l'aile ouverte,
Sur l'abîme presque joyeux ;
[Le soleil dore la mer verte]¹, --
Et je saigne, silencieux, 
En regardant briller les cieux.

Je me sens déjà seul et vide,
Comme un esquif abandonné
Flottant sur un fleuve livide,
Qui traverserait, entraîné,
Plus d'un grand pays étonné.

Je vois que le moment s'approche ;
Et j'admire que le destin,
Insensible comme la roche,
Au ciel, gris et bleu, de satin
Fasse fleurir un tel matin.

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¹ Chausson: "Au grand soleil la mer est verte"

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by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 47, first published 1876 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La fleur des eaux", op. 19 no. 1 (1882), published 1917, first performed 1893, orchestrated 1893 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, no. 1, Rouart & Lerolle
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ENG English (Korin Kormick) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Wie kläglich und wie grausam

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Wie kläglich und wie grausam
schlägt uns die Abschiedsstunde!
Das Meer rollt auf den Strand
und macht sich lustig; es schert sich wenig
um das Scheiden.

Mit weiten Schwingen ziehen Vögel hin
über des Meeres Tiefen, fast vergnügt.
Das Meer ist grün im hellen Licht der Sonne,
Ich blute still
und seh’ den Himmel schimmern.



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Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in French (Français) by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 47, first published 1876
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This text was added to the website: 2015-07-05
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