I want the morning not to know

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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Translation © by Peter Low

Je veux que le matin l'ignore

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER

Je veux que le matin l'ignore
Le nom que j'ai dit à la nuit,
Et qu'au vent de l'aube, sans bruit,
Comme une larme il s'évapore.

Je veux que le jour le proclame
L'amour qu'au matin j'ai caché,
Et sur mon cœur ouvert penché,
[Ainsi qu'un grain d'encens]¹ l'enflamme.

Je veux que le couchant l'oublie
Le secret que j'ai dit au jour
Et l'emporte, avec mon amour,
Aux plis de sa robe pâlie !

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Fauré

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Confirmed with Armand Silvestre, Le pays des roses. Poésies nouvelles 1880-1882, Paris, G. Charpentier, 1882, pages 140-141.

¹ Fauré: "Comme un grain d'encens il"

Text Authorship:

by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Mystère", appears in Le Pays de Roses, poésies nouvelles 1880-1882, in 3. Vers pour être chantés [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Le Secret", op. 23 no. 3 (1881), published 1881, orchestrated 1923 by Henri-Paul Büsser [ voice and piano ], Éditions J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
by François Luc Joseph Thomé (1850 - 1909), as Francis Thomé, "Mystère" [ medium voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, no. 4, Paris, Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74

I want the morning not to know

Language: English after the French (Français)

I want the morning not to know
the name that I told to the night;
in the dawn wind, silently,
may it evaporate like a teardrop.
 
I want the day to proclaim
the love that I hid from the morning,
and (bent over my open heart)
to set it aflame, like a grain of incense.
 
I want the sunset to forget
the secret I told to the day,
and to carry it away with my love
in the folds of its pale robe!

About the headline (FAQ)

Translation of title "Le secret" = "The secret"

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Mystère", appears in Le Pays de Roses, poésies nouvelles 1880-1882, in 3. Vers pour être chantés
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 83