| Je suis seul!
| I am alone!
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| Seul enfin!
| Alone at last!
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| C’est le moment suprême!
| This is the supreme moment!
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| Il n’est plus rien que j’aime
| There's nothing I love anymore
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| Que le repos sacré que m’apporte la foi!
| May the sacred rest that faith brings me!
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| Oui, j’ai voulu mettre
| Yes, I wanted to put
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| Dieu même
| God himself
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| Entre le monde et moi!
| Between the world and me!
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| Ah! | Ah! |
| fuyez, douce image, à mon âme trop chère;
| flee, sweet image, to my too dear soul;
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| Respectez un repos cruellement gagné,
| Respect a hard-earned rest,
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| Et songez, si j’ai bu dans une coupe amère,
| And think, if I drank from a bitter cup,
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| Que mon coeur l’emplirait de ce qu’il a saigné!
| How my heart would fill it with what it bled!
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| Ah! | Ah! |
| fuyez! | run away! |
| fuyez! | run away! |
| loin de moi!
| far from me!
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| Ah! | Ah! |
| fuyez!
| run away!
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| Que m’importe la vie et ce semblant de gloire?
| What do I care about life and this semblance of glory?
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| Je ne veux que chasser du fond de ma mémoire…
| I just want to hunt from the bottom of my memory...
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| Un nom maudit! | A cursed name! |
| ce nom… qui m’obsède et pourquoi?
| this name... who obsesses me and why?
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| J’y vais!
| I go!
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| Mon Dieu!
| My God!
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| De votre flamme
| Of your flame
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| Purifiez mon âme…
| Purify my soul...
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| Et dissipez à sa lueur
| And dissipate in its glow
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| L’ombre qui passe encor dans le fond de mon coeur!
| The shadow that still passes in the bottom of my heart!
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| Ah! | Ah! |
| fuyez, douce image, à mon âme trop chère!
| flee, sweet image, to my too dear soul!
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| Ah! | Ah! |
| fuyez! | run away! |
| fuyez! | run away! |
| loin de moi!
| far from me!
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| Ah! | Ah! |
| fuyez! | run away! |
| loin de moi! | far from me! |
| loin de moi! | far from me! |