Lullaby | When the child falls asleep in his white cradle

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by Georges Champenois

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Berceuse

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Quand l’enfant s’endort dans son berceau blanc
Son ange gardien, d’un geste très lent,
Le prend dans ses bras, sourit et s’envole,
Et sur ses cheveux pose une auréole.

Ainsi chaque nuit les enfantelets,
S’en vont à travers les cieux étoilés
Vers le Paradis, guidés par les anges,
Les enfantelets perdus dans leurs langes.

La mère en veillant le berceau tout blanc,
Voit l’enfant sourire et songe en tremblant:
“Le ciel et si beau! Pourvu qu’il revienne!”
Et la Vierge Mère alors, le ramène.

Text Authorship:

by Georges Champenois [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 René-Emmanuel Baton (1879 - 1940), as Rhené-Baton, "Berceuse", op. 7 no. 7, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons douces, no. 7, Éd. de la société musicale, and later Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Lullaby", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2020-03-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 84

Lullaby

Language: English after the French (Français)

When the child falls asleep in his white cradle
His guardian angel, with a very slow movement,
Takes [the child] in his arms, smiles, and takes flight,
And upon his hair places a halo.

Thus each night the little children
Go across the starry skies
Toward paradise, guided by the angels,
The little children lost in their swaddling clothes.

The mother, keeping watch over the cradle all white,
Sees the child smiling and thinks, trembling:
“The sky is so beautiful! As long as he returns!”
And the Virgin Mother then brings him back.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Georges Champenois
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This text was added to the website: 2020-03-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 93