| Petite fleur (original) | Petite fleur (translation) |
|---|---|
| Si les fleurs | If all the flowers |
| Qui bordent les chemins | That hem the country roads with trembling lace, |
| Se fainaient toutes demain | Should wither, faded, by tomorrow’s dawn, |
| Je garderais au coeur | Still in my heart I would enshrine |
| Celle qui | The one that |
| S’allumait dans tes yeux | Once kindled in your gaze—a sudden star— |
| Lorsque je t’aimais tant | When I so fiercely worshipped you, |
| Au pays merveileux | In that enchanted realm |
| De nos seize printemps | Where our sixteen springs were crowned by light. |
| Petite fleur d’amour | Little blossom of love, |
| Tu fleuriras toujours | You shall forever unfold your silken fire, |
| Pour moi | For me alone, |
| Quand la vie | When life, |
| Par moment me trahit | In fitful hours betrays me, |
| Tu restes mon bonheur | You endure—my portion of delight, |
| Petite fleur | Petite fleur, |
| Sur mes vingt ans | Upon the boundary of my twenty years, |
| Je m’arrête un moment | I pause mid-flight, |
| Pour respirer | To breathe once more |
| Ce parfum que j’ai tant aimé | That fragrance I adored beyond all reason, |
| Dans mon coeur | Within my heart, |
| Tu fleuriras toujour | You shall ever bloom anew, |
| Au grand jardin d’amour | In the vast, unending garden of desire, |
| Petite fleur… | Little flower... |
| Dans mon coeur | Within my heart, |
| Tu fleuriras toujour | You shall ever bloom anew, |
| Au grand jardin d’amour | In the vast, unending garden of desire, |
| Petite fleur… | Little flower... |
