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En prière (Gabriel Fauré)
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General Information
Title: En prière
Composer: Gabriel Fauré
Lyricist: Stéphan Bordèsecreate page (1847-?)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Soprano
Genre: Secular, Chanson
Language: French
Instruments: Piano
Published:
Description: Dedicated to Madame Leroux-Ribeyre.
External websites:
- Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
- English translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page"
Original text and translations
French text
- Si la voix d’un enfant peut monter jusqu’à Vous,
- Ô mon Père,
- Écoutez de Jésus, devant Vous à genoux,
- La prière!
- Si Vous m’avez choisi pour enseigner vos lois
- Sur la terre,
- Je saurai Vous servir, auguste Roi des rois,
- Ô Lumière!
- Sur mes lèvres, Seigneur, mettez la vérité
- Salutaire,
- Pour que celui qui doute, avec humilité
- Vous révère!
- Ne m’abandonnez pas, donnez-moi la douceur
- Nécessaire,
- Pour apaiser les maux, soulager la douleur,
- La misère!
- Révèlez Vous à moi, Seigneur en qui je crois
- Et j’espère:
- Pour Vous je veux souffrir et mourir sur la croix,
- Au calvaire!
English translation
- If the voice of a child could reach up to you,
- O my Father,
- To be heard by Jesus... kneeling before You,
- A prayer!
- If you have chosen me to teach your laws
- On Earth,
- I would know how to serve you, august King of kings,
- O Light!
- On my lips, Lord, place the salutary Truth,
- So that those who doubt, with humility will
- revere you!<
- Do not abandon me, but give me the Grace necessary to
- overcome evils, and to relieve pain
- & misery!
- Reveal yourself to me, Lord in whom I believe
- and hope!
- For You I want to suffer and die on the Cross,
- on Calvary!
