Forget not the field
Language:
English
Forget not the field where they perished,
The truest, the last of the brave,
All gone--and the bright hope we cherished
Gone with them, and quenched in their grave!
Oh! could we from death but recover
Those hearts as they bounded before,
In the face of high heaven to fight over
That combat for freedom once more;--
Could the chain for an instant be riven
Which Tyranny flung round us then,
No, 'tis not in Man, nor in Heaven,
To let Tyranny bind it again!
But 'tis past--and, tho' blazoned in story
The name of our Victor may be,
Accurst is the march of that glory
Which treads o'er the hearts of the free.
Far dearer the grave or the prison,
Illumed by one patriot name,
Than the trophies of all, who have risen
On Liberty's ruins to fame.
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Set in
French,
adapted by
Thomas Gounet (1801-1869)
FRE
Date added to the website: 2003-11-03.
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Chant guerrier
Language:
French
N'oublions pas ces champs dont la poussière
Est teinte encor du sang de nos guerriers!
Nous leur devons des pleurs, une prière.
La Liberté rayonne á nos foyers.
Ils sont tombés, mais de la mort des braves,
En nous léguant cet heureux avenir
Qui nivela le maître et les esclaves:
Monde nouveau qui ne doit pas finir!
N'oublions pas ces champs etc.
Pourquoi faut-il qu'au milieu des batailles
Vienne mourir un injuste pouvoir,
Et que le deuil, les tristes funérailles
Des affranchis soient le premier devoir?
N'oublions pas ces champs etc.
Heureux le peuple, á ses serments fidèle,
Qui sans combats vit consacrer ses droits!
La Liberté jamais ne fut si belle
Qu'en descendant du marchepied des Rois.
N'oublions pm ces champs etc.
Input by John Versmoren
Authorship
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
Date added to the website: 2003-11-03.
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