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by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867)
Translation © by Eric Nummela

Ô mes cloches du soir, sonnez à mon...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ô mes cloches du soir, sonnez à mon oreille,
Sonnez, sonnez encore, ô mes cloches d’amour !
Mon cœur s’ouvres à vos voix, comme la fleur vermeille
    S’ouvre aux baisers du jour !

  Le soleil a baissé : c’est l’heure
  D’amertumes et de peril
  Où la tristesse nous effleure,
  Où l’étranger s’arrête et pleure
  Sur la m ontagne de l’exil.

  C’est l’heure de la reverie,
  C’est l’heure de l’isolement,
  Où sur chaque lèvre qui prie
  Le nom céleste de Marie
  Vient de lui-même doucement.

  Ô la première entre les femmes
  Qui de là haut [veillent]1 sur nous,
  Ô patronne des chastes flammes,
  À qui s’adresseraient les âmes,
  Si ce n’était d’abord à vous ?

  Mais le doux angélus qui tinte,
  Et qui s’assoupit par degré,
  Me rappelle une voix éteinte,
  Me rappelle une rose atteinte
  Par [un]2 souffle prématuré.

  Hélas ! hélas ! Ma beauté frêle
  Entend-elle sous son linceul
  Cette cloche triste et fidèle
  Qu’autrefois j’écoutais près d’elle,
  Que maintenant j’écoute seul ?

Ô mes cloches du soir, sonnez à mon oreille,
Sonnez, sonnez encore, ô mes cloches d’amour ;
Mon cœur s’ouvres à vos voix, comme la fleur vermeille
     S’ouvre aux baisers du jour !

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   L. Bordèse 

L. Bordèse sets stanzas 1, 3-4, 1, 5, 7

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Édouard Turquety. Amour et Foi. Poésie catholique. Hymnes sacrées, cinquième édition, Paris, Abroise Bray, 1857, pages 414-415.

1 Bordèse: "veille"
2 Bordèse: "le"

Text Authorship:

  • by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867), "Ressouvenir", appears in Hymnes sacrées, first published 1846 [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 Luigi Bordèse (1815 - 1886), "Ô mes cloches du soir", subtitle: "Ressouvenir", published [1851], stanzas 1,3-4,1,5,7 [ vocal duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Eric Nummela) , "Remember", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Eric Nummela

This text was added to the website: 2022-07-05
Line count: 33
Word count: 190

Remember
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
O my bells of evening, ring in my ear,
Ring, ring again, oh my bells of love!
My heart opens to your voices, like the vermilion flower
Open to the kisses of the day!

The sun has gone down: it is the hour
Of bitterness and peril
When sadness touches us,
When the stranger stops and cries
On the mountain of exile.

It is the hour for reverie,
It is the hour for isolation,
When on every lip that prays
The heavenly name of Mary
Presents itself gently.

O the first among women
Who from above watches over us,
O patron saint of chaste flames,
To whom would the souls turn,
If it wasn't first to you?

But the sweet angelus which tinkles,
And which fades away little by little,
Reminds me of a dead voice,
Reminds me of a rose touched
By a premature breeze.

Alas! Alas! My frail beauty,
Does she hear under her shroud
This sad and faithful bell
That I used to listen to near her,
That now I listen alone?

O my bells of evening, ring in my ear,
Ring, ring again, oh my bells of love
My heart opens to your voices, like the vermilion flower
Open to the kisses of the day!

Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2023 by Eric Nummela, (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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Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867), "Ressouvenir", appears in Hymnes sacrées, first published 1846
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This text was added to the website: 2023-09-01
Line count: 33
Word count: 209

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