Chanson de Barberine
Alfred De Musset
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| Original | Traduzione inglese di Victoria de Menil. |
| CHANSON DE BARBERINE | HANDSOME KNIGHT, YOU WHO LEAVE FOR WAR |
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| Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre, | Handsome knight, you who leave for war |
| Qu'allez-vous faire | What will you do |
| Si loin d'ici? | far from here? |
| Voyez-vous pas que la nuit est profonde, | Do you see that the night is deep? |
| Et que le monde | And that the world |
| n'est que souci? | is but worry? |
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| Vous qui croyez qu'une amour délaissée | You who think that love |
| De la pensée | Abandoned by thought |
| S'enfuit ainsi, | flees like that. |
| Hélas! hélas! chercheurs de renommée, | Alas! Alas! Seekers of fame |
| Votre fumée | Your smoke |
| S'envole aussi. | flies away too! |
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| Beau chevalier qui partez pour la guerre, | Hansome knight, you who leave for war |
| Qu'allez-vous faire | What will you do |
| Si loin de nous? | far from us? |
| J'en vais pleurer, moi qui me laissais dire | It will make me cry. I who thought |
| Que mon sourire | That my smile |
| Était si doux. | was so sweet! |
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