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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Translation © by Laura Prichard

Puisque l'aube grandit, puisque voici...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Puisque l'aube grandit, puisque voici l'aurore,
Puisque, après m'avoir fui longtemps, l'espoir veut bien
Revoler devers moi qui l'appelle et l'implore,
Puisque tout ce bonheur veut bien être le mien,

C'en est fait à présent des funestes pensées,
C'en est fait des mauvais rêves, ah ! c'en est fait
Surtout de l'ironie et des lèvres pincées
Et des mots où l'esprit sans l'âme triomphait.

Arrière aussi les poings crispés et la colère
À propos des méchants et des sots rencontrés ;
Arrière la rancune abominable ! arrière
L'oubli qu'on cherche en des breuvages exécrés !

Car je veux, maintenant qu'un Être de lumière
A dans ma nuit profonde émis cette clarté
D'une amour à la fois immortelle et première,
De par la grâce, le sourire et la bonté,

Je veux, guidé par vous, beaux yeux aux flammes douces,
Par toi conduit, ô main où tremblera ma main,
Marcher droit, que ce soit par des sentiers de mousses
Ou que rocs et cailloux encombrent le chemin ;

Oui, je veux marcher droit et calme dans la Vie,
Vers le but où le sort dirigera mes pas,
Sans violence, sans remords et sans envie :
Ce sera le devoir heureux aux gais combats.

Et comme, pour bercer les lenteurs de la route,
Je chanterai des airs ingénus, je me dis
Qu'elle m'écoutera sans déplaisir sans doute ;
Et vraiment je ne veux pas d'autre Paradis.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   G. Fauré 

G. Fauré sets stanzas 1, 5, 7

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Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 4, first published 1870 [author's text not yet checked 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 Alphons Diepenbrock (1862 - 1921), "Puisque l'aube grandit", 1909, published 1910, orchestrated 1916 [ mezzo-soprano and orchestra ], Amsterdam, Alsbach [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Puisque l'aube grandit", op. 61 no. 2, published 1892-3, stanzas 1,5,7 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 2, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Puisque l'aube grandit", published [1901] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "Puisque l'aube grandit", 1936, published 1936 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 1, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Puix que l’alba s’acreix", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 28
Word count: 226

Since day is breaking, since dawn is...
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
Since day is breaking, since dawn is here,
Since, having long eluded me, hope may
Fly back to me, who calls to it and implores it,
Since all this happiness will certainly be mine,

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I want, guided by you, [your] beautiful eyes [lit] by gentle flames,
Led by you, in whose hand my trembling hand [rests],
To march straight on, whether along trails of moss
Or on tracks strewn with boulders and stones;

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And just as I'll comfort myself [during] the tediousness of the journey,
By singing some innocent airs, I'll tell myself
That she will hear me without displeasure or doubt;
And truly I want no other paradise.

About the headline (FAQ)

Translator's notes:
Stanza 7, line 1: "I'll comfort myself": the French verb bercer usually implies rocking, as of a boat or a cradle.

Translation of title "Puisque l'aube grandit" = "Since day is breaking"


Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Laura Prichard, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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  • a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 4, first published 1870
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This text was added to the website: 2016-02-08
Line count: 28
Word count: 109

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