Par un jour de marche | Ici, malgré ce vent triomphant

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by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

On a March day

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind
  That shakes the naked shadows on the ground,
Making a key-board of the earth to strike
  From clattering tree and hedge a separate sound,

Bear witness for me that I loved my life,
  All things that hurt me and all things that healed,
And that I swore it this day in March,
  Here at the edge of this new-broken field.

You only knew me, tell them I was glad
  For every hour since my hour of birth,
And that I ceased to fear, as once I feared,
  The last complete reunion with the earth.

Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Dark of The Moon, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1926, page 90.

Text Authorship:

by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "On a March Day", appears in Dark of the Moon, in The Flight, first published 1926 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "On a March day", 1947, published 1949 [ low voice and piano ], Boosey & Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Par un jour de marche", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-13
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Word count: 102

Par un jour de marche

Language: French (Français) after the English

Ici, malgré ce vent triomphant
  Qui agite sur le sol les ombres nues,
Faisant de la terre un clavier à jouer
  Un son différent des arbres et des haies s'entrechoquant,

Sois-moi témoin que j'ai aimé ma vie,
  Toutes les choses qui m'ont blessée et qui m'ont guérie,
Et cela je le jure en ce jour de mai
  Ici au bord de ce terrain récemment brisé.

Toi seul me connaissais, dis-leur que j'étais heureuse
  À chaque instant depuis l'heure de ma naissance,
Et que j'ai cessé de craindre dès que je craignis,
  La réunion finale et complète avec la terre.

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Based on:

a text in English by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "On a March Day", appears in Dark of the Moon, in The Flight, first published 1926
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 99