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Chanson d'Automne

by Paul Verlaine

In French

Les sanglots longs

Des violons

De l'automne

Blessent mon cœur

D'une langueur

Monotone.

Tout suffocant

Et blême, quand

Sonne l'heure,

Je me souviens

Des jours anciens

Et je pleure

Et je m'en vais

Au vent mauvais

Qui m'emporte

Deçà, delà,

Pareil à la

Feuille morte

In English

The long sobs

of autumn's

violins

wound my heart

with a monotonous

languor.

Wholly breathless

and pale, When

the clock strikes,

I remember

the old days,

And I weep.

And I set off

in the ill wind

that carries me

here and there,

Like

a dead leaf.

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