Song of a Worker | My hope is not yet lost

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by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)

Translation © by John Glenn Paton

Chant du laboureur

Language: French (Français) after the Hebrew (עברית)

Our translations: ENG

Mon espérance n'est pas encore perdue, 
Ô patrie douce aimée, 
de trouver sur ton sol 
un coin pour m'y établir 
avant que ma fin n'arrive... 

une maisonnette sur le sommet d'une colline 
au milieu d'un jardin de légumes 
et d'arbres fruitiers, 
une vigne abondante en grappes, 
une source limpide jaillissant avec bruit. 

Là-bas, sous le feuillage d'un arbre touffu 
je travaillerai, je respirerai légèrement. 
Devant les ruines environnantes 
j'épancherai mon coeur, 
je demanderai a quand la fin de la colère? 

Mais lorsqu'aux confins des vallées 
j'entendrai le chant de mes frères vigoureux 
je dirai voilà la fin des tristesses!
Voilà la fin des malheurs.

Text Authorship:

by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)

Based on:

a text in Hebrew (עברית) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [text unavailable]
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Chant du laboureur", op. 34 no. 3 (1916), published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes Juifs, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Demets (Max Eschig) [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Song of a Worker", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 19
Word count: 104

Song of a Worker

Language: English after the French (Français)

 My hope is not yet lost,
 o sweetly beloved homeland, 
 of finding on your soil
 a little corner to settle down in
 before my end arrives...
 
 A cottage on top of a hill, surrounded 
 by a vegetable garden 
 and fruit trees,
 a vineyard of abundant grapes,
 a clear spring that gushes noisily.
 
 There under the foliage of a luxuriant tree
 I shall work, I shall breathe easily.
 Before the surrounding ruins 
 I shall pour out my heart, 
 I shall ask: when will the anger end? 
 
 But while from the edges of the valleys
 I hear the song of my vigorous brothers,
 I shall say: Behold the end of the days!
 Behold the end of our miseries!

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Hebrew (עברית) from Volkslieder (Folksongs) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 19
Word count: 117