To Princess Ulrika of Prussia | Oftentimes a little morsel of truth

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by François Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), as Voltaire

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

À Madame la Princesse Ulrique de Prusse

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Souvent un peu de vérité 
Se mêle au plus grossier mensonge 
Cette nuit, dans l'erreur d'un songe, 
Au rang des rois j'étais monté. 
Je vous aimais, princesse, et j'osais vous le dire! 
Les dieux à mon réveil ne m'ont pas tout ôté; 
Je n'ai perdu que mon empire.

Text Authorship:

by François Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), as Voltaire, "À Madame la Princesse Ulrique de Prusse" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) , "Сновидение" [an adaptation] ; composed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky, César Antonovich Cui, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov, Sergey Grigoryevich Grasgof, Yury Vladimirovich Kochurov, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Vladimir Ivanovich Verderevsky.

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "To Princess Ulrika of Prussia", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-08-21
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To Princess Ulrika of Prussia

Language: English after the French (Français)

Oftentimes a little morsel of truth
mixes itself in with the most blatant of lies:
last night, in the error of my dreams,
I had ascended to the loftiest rang of kings.
Princess, I loved you, and dared to tell you so!
Upon my awakening, the gods did not take away everything from me;
I lost nothing more than my empire.

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a text in French (Français) by François Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), as Voltaire, "À Madame la Princesse Ulrique de Prusse"
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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-19
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Word count: 61