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The water is wide I cannot get o’ver,

And neither have I wings to fly.

Give me a boat that will carry two,

And both shall row, my love and I.

O, down in the meadows the other day

A-gathering flowers both fine and gay,

A-gathering flowers both red and blue,

I little thought what love can do.

I leaned my back up against some oak

Thinking that he was a trusty tree;

But first he bended, and then he broke;

And so did my false love to me.

A ship there is, and she sails the sea,

She’s loaded deep as deep can be,

But not so deep as the love I’m in :

I know not if I sink or swim.

O, love is handsome and love is fine,

And love’s jewel when it is new,

But when it is old, it groweth cold,

And fades away like morning dew.

Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet

She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet,

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree

But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree.

In a field by the river my love and I did stand,

And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

– William Butler Yeats

Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, –

The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:

Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms

‘Neath billowing [clouds]¹ that scatter and amass.

All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,

Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge

Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge.

‘Tis visible silence, still as the hour glass.

Deep in the sunsearched growths the dragon-fly

Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: –

So this winged hour is dropt to us from above.

Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,

This close-companioned inarticulate hour

When twofold silence was the song of love.

Instrumental

Una furtiva lagrima

negli occhi suoi spuntò:

Quelle festose giovani

invidiar sembrò.

Che più cercando io vo?

Che più cercando io vo?

M’ama! Sì, m’ama, lo vedo. Lo vedo.

Un solo instante i palpiti

del suo bel cor sentir!

I miei sospir, confondere

per poco a’ suoi sospir!

I palpiti, i palpiti sentir,

confondere i miei coi suoi sospir…

Cielo! Si può morir!

Di più non chiedo, non chiedo.

Ah, cielo! Si può! Si, può morir!

Di più non chiedo, non chiedo.

Si può morire! Si può morir d’amor.

A single secret tear

from her eye did spring:

as if she envied all the youths

that laughingly passed her by.

What more searching need I do?

What more searching need I do?

She loves me! Yes, she loves me, I see it. I see it.

For just an instant the beating

of her beautiful heart I could feel!

As if my sighs were hers,

and her sighs were mine!

The beating, the beating of her heart I could feel,

to merge my sighs with hers…

Heavens! Yes, I could die!

I could ask for nothing more, nothing more.

Oh, heavens! Yes, I could, I could die!

I could ask for nothing more, nothing more.

Yes, I could die! Yes, I could die of love.

Lourds, soudain semblent lourds

les draps et velours de ton lit

quand j’oublie jusqu’à notre amour

Lourds, soudain semblent lourds

tes bras qui m’entourent

déjà dans la nuit

Mon bateau part, s’en va quelque part

les gens se séparent,

j’oublie, j’oublie

Tard, autre part dans un bar d’acajou

des violons nous rejouent

notre mélodie, mais j’oublie

Tard, on se sépare dans un joue contre joue

tout devient flou et

j’oublie, j’oublie

Court, le temps semble court

le compte à rebours d’une nuit

quand j’oublie jusqu’à notre amour

Court, le temps semble court

tes doigts qui parcourent

ma ligne de vie.

Sans un regard,

des hommes on s’égare

sur un quai de gare,

j’oublie, j’oublie

Heavy, suddenly they seem heavy

the linen and velvets of your bed

when our love passes to oblivion

Heavy, suddenly they seem heavy

your arms embracing me

formerly in the night

My boat parts, it’s going somewhere

people get separated,

I’m forgetting, I’m forgetting

Later, at some other place in a mahogany bar

the violins playing again for us

our song, but I’m forgetting

Later, it splits off to a cheek to cheek

everything becomes blurred and

I’m forgetting, I’m forgetting

Brief, the times seem brief

the countdown of a night

when our love passes to oblivion

Brief, the times seem brief

your fingers running all over

my lifeline.

Without a glance

people are straying off

on a train platform,

I’m forgetting, I’m forgetting

Les feux d’artifice t’appellent

Descends dans la rue

Les feux d’artifice t’appellent

Descends dans la rue

Les feux d’artifice t’appellent

Les couleurs dans le ciel

Eclatent sur la ville

Le feu du ciel qui fut

Descend dans la rue

Et l’amour n’est plus attendu

C’est la joie et l’allégresse

Dans tout Paris, on fait la fête

Je reste, je reste, je reste,

Je regarde, regarde, regarde

Jeunes hommes, descendez avec vos maîtresses

Jeunes filles, profitez du temps qui reste

Je reste, je reste, je reste ici

Je regarde par ma grande fenêtre

Les feux d’artifice sont finis

Çela n’a pas duré longtemps

Les feux d’artifice sont finis

Çela n’a pas duré longtemps

The fireworks are calling out to you,

Get out on the street

The fireworks are calling out to you,

Get out on the street

The fireworks are calling out to you

The colours in the sky

Explode over the city

The fire of the sky which was

Get out on the street

And love isn’t awaited anymore

There is joy and bliss

All over Paris, a party is going on

I stay, I stay, I stay

I watch, I watch, I watch

Young men, get out with your mistresses

Young girls, make the best out of the time you’ve got left

I stay, I stay, I stay here

I watch through my large window

The fireworks are over,

It didn’t last long

The fireworks are over,

It didn’t last long

Instrumental

I’ve heard there was a secret chord

That David played, and it pleased the Lord

But you don’t really care for music, do you?

It goes like this

The fourth, the fifth

The minor fall, the major lift

The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof

You saw her bathing on the roof

Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you

She tied you to a kitchen chair

She broke your throne, and she cut your hair

And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain

I don’t even know the name

But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?

There’s a blaze of light

In every word

It doesn’t matter which you heard

The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn’t much

I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch

I’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool you

And even though it all went wrong

I’ll stand before the Lord of Song

With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Hallelujah