| Ulysse part la voile au vent
| Odysseus sets sail to the wind
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| Vers Ithaque aux ondes chéries
| Towards Ithaca with cherished waves
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| Avec des bercements la vague roule et plie
| With rocking the wave rolls and bends
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| Au large de son coeur la mer aux vastes eaux
| Beyond her heart the sea of vast waters
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| Où son oeil suit les blancs oiseaux
| Where his eye follows the white birds
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| Egrène au loin des pierreries
| Scattered away from the gems
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| Ulysse part la voile au vent
| Odysseus sets sail to the wind
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| Vers Ithaque aux ondes chéries!
| To Ithaca with cherished waves!
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| Penché oeil grave et coeur battant
| Bend down grave eye and beating heart
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| Sur le bec d’or de sa galère
| On the golden beak of his galley
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| Il se rit, quand le flot est noir, de sa colère
| He laughs, when the flood is black, at his anger
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| Car là-bas son cher fils pieux et fier attend
| For there his dear pious and proud son awaits
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| Après les combats éclatants
| After the fierce battles
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| La victoire aux bras de son père
| Victory in the arms of his father
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| Il songe, oeil grave et coeur battant
| He thinks, grave eye and beating heart
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| Sur le bec d’or de sa galère
| On the golden beak of his galley
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| Ulysse part la voile au vent
| Odysseus sets sail to the wind
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| Vers Ithaque aux ondes chéries | Towards Ithaca with cherished waves |