by
Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Notre banc
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
Elle m'avait dit qu'Elle m'attendrait dans cette demeure
où nous nous sommes tant aimés.
Je ne suis pas revenu.
Quand tu passeras sur la route de Dar-Ould-Zidah,
arrête-toi devant un jardin que gardent deux cypres,
et crie Son nom.
Si personne ne répond, pousse la porte, entre, et donne
un peu d'eau à des rosiers qui entourent un banc de marbre.
Confirmed with Le jardin des caresses, in: Le revue de Paris, Paris : Bureau de la Revue de Paris, 1910, p.567
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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 Fernand Quinet (1898 - 1971), "Notre banc", 1921, copyright © 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies orientales, no. 1, Bruxelles : L'Art belge [sung text not yet checked]
- by Walter Morse Rummel (1887 - 1953), "Notre banc", published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons arabes, no. 1, London, Augener [sung text not yet checked]
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Our Bench
Language: English after the French (Français)
She had told me that She would wait for me in that dwelling
where we had so loved each other.
I have not gone back.
When you pass by on the way to Dar-Ould-Zidah,
stop in front of a garden where two cypresses stand guard,
and call out Her name.
If no one answers, open the door, go in, and give
a little water to roses growing around a marble bench.
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