Since you have come back | Since you have come back

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by Paul Collin (1845 - 1915)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Puisque vous êtes revenue

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Puisque vous êtes revenue
Le soleil peut bien s'en aller,
Sa douceur m'était moins connue
Que la douceur de vous parler,
Et la douceur de vous entendre
Et de sentir un cœur ami,
Comme une aile d'oiseau s'étendre
Jusque sur mon cœur endormi.
Si l'été vous eût retenue
Je l'aurais suivi d'un regret,
Que m'importe s'il disparait.

Text Authorship:

by Paul Collin (1845 - 1915) [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 Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Puisque vous êtes revenue", published 1887 [voice and piano], from Zwölf Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte, no. 12, Mainz, Schott, also set in German (Deutsch) [ sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ENG ; composed by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild.

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Since you have come back", copyright © 2012

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This text was added to the website: 2012-11-20
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Word count: 57

Since you have come back

Language: English after the French (Français)

Since you have come back,
the sun may as well go;
I hardly recognize its sweetness compared with
the sweetness of speaking with you,
and the sweetness of listening to you
and the thought of your dear heart,
like a bird's wing spread
across my sleeping heart.
If summer had detained you
I would have followed it with regret,
what do I care now that it is setting?

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by Emily Ezust
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a text in French (Français) by Paul Collin (1845 - 1915)
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This text was added to the website: 2012-12-03
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Word count: 68