In my Music Notebook...

4/28/2015

Un Canadien Errant
Un Canadien errant,
Banni de ses foyers,
Parcourait en pleurant
Des pays étrangers.
Un jour, triste et pensif,
Assis au bord des flots,
Au courant fugitif
Il adressa ces mots:
"Si tu vois mon pays,
Mon pays malheureux,
Va, dis à mes amis
Que je me souviens d'eux.
"Ô jours si pleins d'appas
Vous êtes disparus,
Et ma patrie, hélas!
Je ne la verrai plus!
"Non, mais en expirant,
Ô mon cher Canada!
Mon regard languissant
Vers toi se portera..."

Literal English Translation:

A wandering Canadian,
Banished from his hearths,
Traveled , weeping,
through foreign countries.
One day, sad and pensive,
Sitting at the waters' edge,
To the fugitive current
He said these words:
“If you see my country,
My unhappy country,
Go tell my friends
That I remember them.
"O days so full of charm[s]
You have disappeared,
And my fatherland, alas!
I will never see it again!
"No, but while dying,
O my dear Canada!
My longing look
will go toward you."

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