Oh don't ever end, silent night, night divine | Oh don't ever end, silent night, night divine

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by Paul Robiquet (1848 - 1928)

Translation © by Jean-Pierre Granger

Oh ! ne finis jamais nuit clémente, nuit divine

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG LIT

Oh ! ne finis jamais nuit clémente, nuit divine
Soleil ne brille pas au fond de la colline...
Et laisse nous aimer encore.

Laisse nous laisse écouter
Dans l'ombre et le mystère,
Les voix, les tendres voix qui n'ont rien de la terre ;
Ne trouble pas nos rêves d'or
Oh ! ne finis jamais, nuit clémente, nuit divine... 
Oh ! ne finis jamais... jamais !

Ce qu'il faut à nos coeur, ô nuit, ce sont tes voiles,
C'est l'exquise pâleur qui tombe des étoiles
sur les amoureux à genoux.
C'est un mot commencé qui jamais ne s'achève.
C'est l'amour éternel mystérieux, sans trève.
Pour la terre immense et pour nous.

Text Authorship:

by Paul Robiquet (1848 - 1928) [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 Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Oh ! ne finis jamais nuit clémente, nuit divine", 1878 [ duet for soprano and baritone with piano ], from Poème d'amour, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Jean-Pierre Granger) , "Oh don't ever end, silent night, night divine", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
LIT Lithuanian (Lietuvių kalba) (Giedrius Prunskus) , "Ak, niekad nesibaigs ši naktis nuostabioji", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Jean-Pierre Granger

This text was added to the website: 2010-10-21
Line count: 15
Word count: 106

Oh don't ever end, silent night, night divine

Language: English after the French (Français)

Oh don't ever end, silent night, night divine.
Sun, do not shine deep down the hill...
Let us love each other more.

Let us hear, 
in the shade and mystery,
The voices, the tender voices that are not from the earth;
Do not disturb our golden dreams.
Oh don't ever end, silent night, night divine...
Oh don't ever end... ever...

What our hearts need, o night, are your veils,
The exquisite paleness that falls from the stars
onto the kneeling lovers.
A word that we begin to say but never finish saying.
It is eternal, mysterious, relentless love,
For the earth and for us.

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Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2010 by Jean-Pierre Granger.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Paul Robiquet (1848 - 1928)
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This text was added to the website: 2010-10-21
Line count: 15
Word count: 104