by François Marie Arouet (1694 - 1778), as Voltaire

À Madame la Princesse Ulrique de Prusse
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Souvent un peu de vérité 
Se mêle au plus grossier mensonge 
Cette nuit, dans l'erreur d'un songe, 
Au rang des rois j'étais monté. 
Je vous aimais, princesse, et j'osais vous le dire! 
Les dieux à mon réveil ne m'ont pas tout ôté; 
Je n'ai perdu que mon empire.

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  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by G. Jorissenne ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799 - 1837) , "Сновидение" [an adaptation] ; composed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky, César Antonovich Cui, Aleksandr Konstantinovich Glazunov, Sergey Grigoryevich Grasgof, Yury Vladimirovich Kochurov, Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Vladimir Ivanovich Verderevsky.

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  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "To Princess Ulrika of Prussia", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2011-08-21
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