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Ma Maison des champs

J'ai donc enfin aux champs la maisonnette

EnglishSo I finally have in the country the little house That in my heart I dreamed of for so long!

Language
French
Date
19th century
Meter
decasyllable
Editorial status
Source-attested
Text
Source and English

Unit 1 · poem · decasyllable · 8 lines

French

Source text

  1. 1

    J'ai donc enfin aux champs la maisonnette

  2. 2

    Que dans mon cœur je rêvai si longtemps !

  3. 3

    Quoique petite et dans tout incomplète,

  4. 4

    Pour la bâtir je fus plus de trente ans !

  5. 5

    Car mes ouvriers étaient tous mes malades,

  6. 6

    Tous à la diète, et tous gardant le lit,

  7. 7

    Au lieu de vin buvant tisanes fades !

  8. 8

    Avec cela lentement on construit.

English text

Alignment approximate; line numbers are not a verified source-to-translation map.

So I finally have in the country the little house

That in my heart I dreamed of for so long!

Although small and in every way incomplete,

To build it took me more than thirty years!

For my workers were all my patients,

All on a diet, and all keeping to their beds,

Instead of wine drinking bland herbal teas!

With that, one builds slowly.