Songs

Lahore: Un sapin isolé

by Maurice Delage From Quatre poèmes hindous (1912)

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Lahore: Un sapin isolé
French source: Gérard Labrunie

Un sapin isolé se dresse sur une montagne
Aride du Nord. Il sommeille.
La glace et la neige l’environne
D’un manteau blanc.

Il rêve d’un palmier qui là-bas
Dans l’Orient lointain se désole,
Solitaire et taciturne,
Sur la pente de son rocher brûlant.

Lahore: A lonely fir-tree
English translation © Richard Stokes

A lonely fir-tree stands on a mountain’s
Barren northern heights. And drowses.
Ice and snow envelop it
In a white blanket.

It dreams of a palm-tree which grieves
Far away in the distant East,
Solitary and silent
On a blazing rocky wall.

Translations by Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)

Lahore: Un sapin isolé
French source: Gérard Labrunie

Lahore: A lonely fir-tree
English source: Richard Stokes

Un sapin isolé se dresse sur une montagne
A lonely fir-tree stands on a mountain’s
Aride du Nord. Il sommeille.
Barren northern heights. And drowses.
La glace et la neige l’environne
Ice and snow envelop it
D’un manteau blanc.
In a white blanket.

Il rêve d’un palmier qui là-bas
It dreams of a palm-tree which grieves
Dans l’Orient lointain se désole,
Far away in the distant East,
Solitaire et taciturne,
Solitary and silent
Sur la pente de son rocher brûlant.
On a blazing rocky wall.

Composer

Maurice Delage

Maurice Delage was a French composer and pianist. Read more here.

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