Jules Massenet – “Pourquoi me réveiller” from ”Werther”

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(Werther) (Why do you wake me now?) Pourquoi me reveiller, o souffle du printemos? Sur mon front je sens tes caresses. Et pourtant bien proche est le temps Des orages et des tristesses. Demain, dans le vallon, Se souvenant de ma gloire premiere, Et ses yeux vainement chercheront ma splendeur: Ils ne trouveront plus que deuil et que misere! Helas! Pourquoi me reveiller, o souffle du printemps? SYNOPSES Werther is madly in love with Charlotte, his friends wife. To forget her, he has run away. But when he returns, he finds he is more in love than ever. Werther recites a favorite poem for Charlotte, and at last realizes that fatal truth: Charlotte can never return his love. ENGLISH TRANSLATION Why do you wake me now, o sweetest breath of spring? On my brow I sense your most gentle caress, Yet how soon creeps on the time. Filled with tempests […]