La mer [English translation]

The sea

You see dancing along limpid gulfs

Has silvery shimmers

The sea –

Shimmers that veer

In the rain

The sea

Under a summer sky

Merges whitecaps

With the angels so pure

The sea, shepherdess of

Endless blue

Now look

Near the ponds

At all those tall wet reeds

Now look

At those white birds

And those rusty dwellings

The sea

Has lulled them

Along the limpid gulfs

And with a love song

The sea

Has lulled my heart for life