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Original French lyrics:
- Un Canadien errant,
- Banni de ses foyers,
- Parcourait en pleurant
- Des pays étrangers.
- Un jour, triste et pensif,
- Assis au bord des flots,
- Au courant fugitif
- Il adressa ces mots:
- "Si tu vois mon pays,
- Mon pays malheureux,
- Va, dis à mes amis
- Que je me souviens d'eux.
- "Ô jours si pleins d'appas
- Vous êtes disparus,
- Et ma patrie, hélas!
- Je ne la verrai plus!
- "Non, mais en expirant,
- Ô mon cher Canada!
- Mon regard languissant
- Vers toi se portera..."
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Literal English Translation:
- A wandering Canadian,
- Banished from his hearths,
- Traveled, weeping, through
- foreign countries.
- One day, sad and pensive,
- Sitting at the waters' edge,
- To the rushing current,
- He said these words:
- “If you see my country,
- My unhappy country,
- Go tell my friends
- That I remember them.
- "O days so full of charm
- You have disappeared,
- And my country, alas!
- I will never again see it!
- "No, but while dying,
- O my dear Canada!
- My longing look
- will go toward you."
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