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Gabriella Swallow, Richard Bonynge and Sally Silver

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Ce qui sort à la fois de tant de douces choses,<br />

Ce qui de ta beauté s’exhale nuit et jour,<br />

Comme un parfum formé du souffle de cent roses,<br />

C’est bien plus que la terre et le ciel, – c’est l’amour!<br />

[3] Ma petite mère a pleuré<br />

Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863-1936), Paul Gravollet<br />

[pseudonym]<br />

Ma petite mère a pleuré,<br />

Longtemps, longtemps, de grosses larmes...<br />

J’en avais le cœur déchiré;<br />

Elle a pleuré de grosses larmes!<br />

J’aurais voulu la consoler<br />

Comme elle toujours me console,<br />

Mais je n’ai pas osé parler,<br />

Puis, que dire qui la console...<br />

D’où lui venait ce gr<strong>and</strong> chagrin?<br />

Qui donc lui faisait de la peine?<br />

Je n’ai rien dem<strong>and</strong>é, j’ai craint<br />

De lui faire encor plus de peine.<br />

Oh! ces longs sanglots étouffants...<br />

Pauvre maman, maman chérie!<br />

Qu’ils font mal aux petits enfants<br />

Les pleurs de leur maman chérie!<br />

Doucement je me suis blotti<br />

Contre sa poitrine oppressée<br />

Et sous mes baisers, j’ai senti<br />

Sa poitrine moins oppressée.<br />

Enfin sous ses longs cils soyeux<br />

La gaîté revint, quelle joie!<br />

Et qu<strong>and</strong> j’eus bien séché ses yeux,<br />

Longuement j’ai pleuré de joie!<br />

What arises at the same time as so many gentle things,<br />

What emanates from your beauty night <strong>and</strong> day,<br />

Like a perfume made from the breath of a hundred roses,<br />

It’s much more than the earth <strong>and</strong> the sky - it’s love!<br />

[3] My mother cried<br />

Paul Barthélemy Jeulin, Paul Gravollet [pseudonym]<br />

My mother cried<br />

A long time, big tears…<br />

My heart was torn in two;<br />

She cried big tears!<br />

I would have liked to console her<br />

Like she always consoles me,<br />

But I dared not speak,<br />

After all, what could I say that would console her…<br />

Where did this huge grief come from?<br />

Who was hurting her?<br />

I asked nothing,<br />

I was afraid of hurting her even more.<br />

Oh! Those long, stifling sobs…<br />

Poor, dear mother!<br />

How the tears of their dear mother<br />

Hurt little children!<br />

I gently nestled<br />

Against her unhappy breast<br />

And under my kisses<br />

I felt her unhappiness lift.<br />

At last, under her long, silky eyelashes<br />

Happiness returned, what joy!<br />

And when I had finished drying her eyes<br />

I wept for joy!<br />

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