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French to English: Cyrano de Bergerac (last page) par Edmond Rostand General field: Art/Literary Detailed field: Poetry & Literature
Source text - French Cyrano.
Je crois qu'elle regarde …
Qu'elle ose regarder mon nez, cette Camarde.
(il lève son épée)
Que dites-vous ?... C'est inutile ?... Je le sais !
Mais on ne se bat pas dans l'espoir du succès !
Non ! Non ! C'est beau lorsque c'est inutile !
Qu'est-ce que c'est que tous ceux-là ? Vous êtes mille ?
Ah ! je vous reconnais, tous mes vieux ennemis !
Le Mensonge ?
(il frappe de son épée le vide.)
Tiens , tiens ! – Ha ! ha ! les Compromis,
Les Préjugés, les Lâchetés !...
(il frappe)
Que je pactise ?
Jamais, jamais ! – Ah ! te voilà, toi, la Sottise !
– Je sais bien qu'à la fin vous me me mettrez à bas ;
N'importe : je me bats ! je me bats ! je me bats !
(il fait des moulinets immenses et s'arrête haletant .)
Oui, vous m'arrachez tout, le laurier et la rose !
Arrachez ! Il y a malgré vous quelque chose
Que j'emporte, et ce soir, quand j'entrerai chez Dieu,
Mon salut balaiera largement le seuil bleu,
Quelque chose que sans un pli, sans une tache,
J'emporte malgré vous,
(Il s'élance l'épée haute.)
et c'est …
(L'épée s'échappe de ses mains, il chancelle, tombe dans les bras de Le Bret et de Ragueneau .)
Roxane.
C'est ?...
Cyrano.
Mon panache .
RIDEAU.
Translation - English Cyrano.
So close I can feel his breath,
He does gaze upon my nose, this Angel of Death.
(he raises his sword)
What do you say ?...That it is useless ?...This I know !
But a man does not fight for success's bright glow !
No ! No ! 'Tis more full of beauty whilst done in vain !
What are all of these figures as countless as grain ?
I know all those who did my life antagonize !
Dishonesty ?
(he strikes the air with his sword)
Take that, wretch ! – Ha ! Ha ! Compromise,
Prejudice, Cowardice!...
(he strikes)
Shall I too fall to thee ?
Never, never ! – Oh ! There you are, Stupidity !
– I knew well that at the end you would take my might ;
But what does it matter? I fight! I fight! I fight!
(He swings around wildly, then stops, out of breath.)
Yes, you take all from me, the laurel and the rose !
Take it ! Take it! Still something of mine with me goes!
At the end of the day when I go to my God,
And I enter between the pearly gates, so broad,
Unwrinkled, unstained, that which no one can detach,
One thing I clasp,
(he lunges, sword held high)
and it is …
(The sword falls from his hands, he falters, he falls into the hands of Le Bret and Rageuneau .)
Roxane.
It is ?...
Cyrano.
My Panache .
CURTAIN.
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