Salut! Demeure chaste et pure Flashcards
Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre?
(a) What trouble unknown me penetrates?
(b) What strange uneasiness pervaded me?
Je sens l’amour s’emparer de mon être!
(a) I feel the love to take hold of my being!
(b) I feel love possessing my being!
Ô Marguerite, à tes pied me voici!
(a) Oh Marguerite at your feet me here is.
(b) Oh, Marguerite, here I am at your feet.
Salut! Demuere chaste et pure,
(a) Greetings! Dwelling chaste and pure,
(b) Hail, chaste and pure dwelling,
où se devine la présence d’une âme innocente et divine!
(a) where is felt the presence of of a soul innocent and divine!
(b) where one senses the presence of an innocent and divine soul!
Que de richesse en cette pauvreté! En ce réduit que de félicité!
(a) What of wealth in this poverty! In this poor dwelling what joy!
(b) What wealth in this poverty! Within this humble lodging, what hapiness!
Ô nature, c’est là que tu la fis si belle!
(a) O nature it is there that you her made so beautiful! (b) O nature, it is there that you made her so beatiful!
C’est là que cette enfant a dormi
(a) it is there that child has slept
(b) It is there that child slept
sous ton aîle, a grandi sous tes yeux
(a) under your wing, has grown up beneath your eyes (b) grew up under your wing, grew up under your eyes-
là que de ton haleine enveloppant son âme
(a) there that with your breath enveloping her soul, (b)there that enveloping her soul with your breath
tu fis avec amour épanouir la femme en cet ange des cieux! C’est là! Oui!
(a) you made with love to bloom the woman in the angel of the heavens! It is there! Yes!
(b) you with love, made the woman blossom into that angel of heaven! It is there! Yes!