by
Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)
Chant de résignation
Language: French (Français)  after the Hebrew (עברית)
Available translation(s): ENG
Prends mon âme, fais en une lyre brillante
avec les muscles de mon coeur fais des cordes,
Et fais-les longues jusqu'au ciel.
Et tes mains, ô muse, allonge-les sans cesse.
Que les fibres de mon coeur
murmurent et frémissent
afin d'exprimer ma douleur immense,
ma misère sans nom,
afin que les cieux laissent couler
des torrents de larmes
et que le crépuscule et l'aube
en soient éternellement noyés.
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- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Song of resignation", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Song of resignation
Language: English  after the French (Français)
Take my soul, make it into a shining lyre,
make its strings from the muscles of my heart.
Make them long enough to reach to heaven,
and your hands, oh Muse, ever longer and longer.
Let the fibers of my heart
murmur and tremble
to express my immense pain
and nameless misery
so that the heavens will shed
floods of tears,
eternally drowning the dawn
and the dusk.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 68