Étoile dont la beauté luit
Comme un diamant dans la nuit,
Regarde vers ma bien-aimée
Dont la paupière s'est fermée.
Et fais descendre sur ses yeux
La bénédiction des cieux.
Elle s'endort... Par la fenêtre
En sa chambre heureuse pénètre;
Sur sa blancheur comme un baiser
Viens jusqu'à l'aube te poser,
Et que sa pensée, alors, rêve
D'un astre d'amour qui se lève!
Star whose beauty glistens
like a diamond in the night,
look towards my beloved
whose eyelid has closed.
And make the benediction of the heavens
descend upon her eyes.
She is falling asleep... Through the window,
into her happy room, enter;
come and settle like a kiss
upon her whiteness, until dawn
and let her thought, then, dream
of a rising star of love!
© translated by Christopher Goldsack
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