So that the wind may bring them to you

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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Translation © by Kyle Gee

Pour que le vent te les apporte

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: DUT ENG

Pour que le vent te les apporte
Sur l'aile noire d'un remord,
J'écrirai sur la feuille morte
Les tortures de mon coeur mort!

Toute ma sève s'est tarie
Aux clairs midis de ta beauté,
Et, comme à la feuille flétrie,
Rien de vivant ne m'est resté;

Tes yeux m'ont brûlé jusqu'à l'âme,
Comme des soleils sans merci!
Feuille que le gouffre réclame,
L'autan va m'emporter aussi...

Mais avant, pour qu'il te les porte
Sur l'aile noire d'un remord,
J'écrirai sur la feuille morte
Les tortures de mon coeur mort!

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Text Authorship:

by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Testament", written 1880, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 10, Paris, Éd. G. Charpentier, first published 1880 [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 Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933), "Testament", 1883, published 1896, orchestrated 1900/1912 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Mathilde Martinon , "Pour que le vent te les apporte" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons tristes, no. 6, Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]

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

DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Kyle Gee) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 89

So that the wind may bring them to you

Language: English after the French (Français)

So that the wind may bring them to you
on the black wing of remorse,
I shall write on a dead leaf
the torments of my dead heart!

All my sap has been dried up
in the bright midday of your beauty,
And, like to the withered leaf,
nothing of life has remained in me;

Your eyes have burned me down to my soul,
like merciless suns!
Like a leaf consumed by the abyss,
the south wind will carry me away also...

But before then, so that it may bring them to you
on the black wing of remorse,
I shall write on a dead leaf
the torments of my dead heart!

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Translation of title "Testament" = "Testament"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Testament", written 1880, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 10, Paris, Éd. G. Charpentier, first published 1880
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This text was added to the website: 2012-08-18
Line count: 16
Word count: 112