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by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)

Nos souvenirs
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Nos souvenirs, toutes ces choses
Qu'à tous les vents nous effeuillons
Comme des pétales de roses
Ou des ailes de papillons,

Ont d'une joie évanouie
Gardé tout le parfum secret,
Et c'est une chose inouïe
Comme le passé reparait.

A de certains moments il semble 
Que le rêve dure toujours
Et que l'on soit encore ensemble
Comme au temps des défunts amours ;

Pendant qu'à demi l'on sommeille, 
Bercé par la vague chanson
D'une voix qui charme l'oreille, 
Sur les lèvres voltige un nom.

Et cette heure où l'on se rappelle
Son cœur follement dépensé,
Est comme un frissonnement d'aile
Qui s'en vient du joyeux passé.

Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929) [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 Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "Nos souvenirs", op. 8 no. 4 (1888), published 1910 [voice and piano], from Quatre poèmes de Bouchor, no. 4. [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Els nostres records", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Our memories", copyright © 2014, (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: 20
Word count: 105

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