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Gustave Nadaud , poeta e cantautore francese.

✵ 20. Febbraio 1820 – 28. Aprile 1893
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Gustave Nadaud Frasi e Citazioni

“Un giorno ero solo nella piana | quando mi ritrovo davanti | un soldato d'appena vent'anni | che portava i colori del Re. | Gli vedo spianare il fucile: | era suo diritto; io armo il mio, | lui fa quattro passi, io ne fo quattro, | lui mira male, io miro bene. | Ah! Maledetta sia la guerra | che fa tirare di quei colpi.”

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Gustave Nadaud: Frasi in inglese

“They tell me every day is there
Not more nor less than Sunday gay;
In shining robes and garments fair
The people walk upon their way.
One gazes there on castle walls
As grand as those of Babylon,
A bishop and two generals!
What joy to be in Carcassonne!
Ah! might I but see Carcassonne!”

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Gustave Nadaud

Stanza 3.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)

“Yet could I these two days have spent,
While still the autumn sweetly shone,
Ah, me! I might have died content
When I had looked on Carcassonne.”

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Gustave Nadaud

Stanza 2.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)

“Translated:
I’m growing old, I’m sixty years;
I’ve labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I’ve failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know —
Never have I seen Carcassonne!”

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Je me fais vieux, j’ai soixante ans,
J’ai travaillé toute ma vie,
Sans avoir, durant tout ce temps.
Pu satisfaire mon envie.
Je vois bien qu’il n’est ici-bas
De bonheur complet pour personne.
Mon vœu ne s’accomplira pas:
Je n’ai jamais vu Carcassonne!
Stanza 1.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)

“Thy pardon, Father, I beseech,
In this my prayer if I offend;
One something sees beyond his reach
From childhood to his journey’s end.
My wife, our little boy Aignan,
Have travelled even to Narbonne;
My grandchild has seen Perpignan;
And I — have not seen Carcassonne.”

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Gustave Nadaud

Stanza 5.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)

“The vicar’s right; he says that we
Are ever wayward, weak and blind;
He tells us in his homily
Ambition ruins all mankind;”

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Gustave Nadaud

Stanza 4.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)