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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (2924)3/1/1999 3:42:00 AM
From: N  Respond to of 13015
 
Aha! Corbeau, my but you've been busy! I see, now we'redeconstructing dreams -- and life! -- in Portuguese.
Very nice!
Chapeau, eh?

Green

Voice des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches..
Et puis voici mon coeur qui ne bat que pour vous
Ne le dechirez pas avec vos deux mains blanches
Et qu'a vos yeus si beaux, l'humble present soit doux.

J'arrive tout couvert encore de rosee
Que le vent du matin vient glacer a mon front
Souffrez que ma fatigue a vos pieds repose
Reve des chers instant qui la dellasseront.

Sur votre jeune sein, laiser roulez ma tete
Toute sonore encore vos derniers baisers
Laissez la s'apaiser de la bonne tempete
Et que je dorme <gggG> un peu puisque vous reposez.

Paul Verlaine

I bring you fruit and leaves and flowers and green branches
And then I bring my heart that you only, make beat.
O do not tear it with your hands white and slender
And in your lovely eyes, may these small gifts be sweet.

I come all covered with dew of early morning
That the wind of the dawn turned to ice on my brow.
I pray let my fatigue, close beside you reposing
Dream of moments dear that will assuage it now.

And let me lay my head that still sings with your kisses
On the softness of your young and lovely breast
Let it lull the refrain of the rapturous tempest.
And may I sleep awhile as you too now will rest.

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Corbeau? E7 non plus? Quoi, quoi, corbeau dans la bois...

* * * *
"If the people of Sarajevo could choose their own anthem, it would surely be
the lyrical <Kad ja podjah na Benbasu..."

When I went to Benbasa
To Benbasa for water
I took a small white lamb with me.
Because of the suffering and passion of love.
Because of sorrow and longing, I went
and looked everywhere
To try to see my darling.
All the girls from Benbasa
Stood in the door of the courtyard
Only my dear darling
Was at the window with the iron grill.
I told her good evening, girl.
She told me to come in the evening.
Come in the evening, darling.

Kad ja pohjah na Benbasu
Na Benbasu na vodu
Ja povedoh b'jelo jagnje.
B'jelo jagnje sa sobom.
Sve od derta i sevdaha,
Od tuge i zalosti.
Svud sam is'o o sud sam gled'o
Ne bil' dragu vidjeo.
Sve djevojke Benbasanke
Na kpiji stajahu.
Samo moja mila draga
Na demirli pendzeru.
Ja joj nazvah dobro vece,
Dobro vece djevojce,
Ona meni doj'do vecer,
doj', do vecer dilberce.


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The Verlaine has been exquisitely set by both Faure and Debussy ...favorites....the Bosnian song is said to be based on a dervish ilahija