Thursday, May 13, 2021

 

Faithful to Our Native Land

Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780-1857), "Le Bon Français," 1st stanza, tr. William Young, Songs of Béranger Done Into English Verse (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1878), p. 42:
I like a Russian to be Russian;
   The Englishman should English be;
And if in Prussia men are Prussian,
   Frenchmen in France be we!
Whilst here our hearts are gushing o'er,
And can but count "one Frenchman more,"
Friends, friends, oh, faithful let us stand;
Aye faithful to our native land!
The French, from his Chansons, t. I (Paris: Perrotin, 1829), p. 108:
J'aime qu'un Russe soit Russe,
Et qu'un Anglais soit Anglais.
Si l'on est Prussien en Prusse,
En France, soyons Français.
Lorsqu'ici nos coeurs émus
Comptent des Français de plus,
Mes amis, mes amis,
Soyons de notre pays,
Oui, soyons de notre pays.



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