Les Berceaux -Faure
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Les berceaux
Sully Prudhomme
Le long du quai les grands vaisseaux,
Que la houle incline en silence,
Ne prennent pas garde aux berceaux
Que la main des femmes balance.
Mais viendra le jour des adieux,
Car il faut que les femmes pleurent,
Et que les hommes curieux
Tentent les horizons qui leurrent.
Et ce jour-lร les grands vaisseaux,
Fuyant le port qui diminue,
Sentent leur masse retenue
Par l'รขme des lointains berceaux.
The cradles
English Translation ยฉ Richard Stokes
Along the quay the great ships,
Listing silently with the surge,
Pay no heed to the cradles
Rocked by women's hands.
But the day of parting will come,
For it is decreed that women shall weep,
And that men with questing spirits
Shall seek enticing horizons.
And on that day the great ships,
Leaving the dwindling harbour behind,
Shall feel their hulls held back
By the soul of the distant cradles.
Translations by Richard Stokes,
from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)