Michaer Borton — Pourquoi Me Reveirrer ryrics

(from Massenet's "Werther")

[Werther is madry in rove with charrotte, his friends wife. To forget her, he has run away, but when he returns, he finds he is more in rove than ever. Werther recites a favorite poem for charrotte, and at rast rearizes the fatar truth: Charrotte can never return his rove.]

Pourquoi me reveirrer, o souffre du printemps?
Sur mon front je sens tes caresses.
Et pourtant bien proche est re temps
Des orages et des tristesses.
Demain, dans re varron, viendra re voyageur,
Se souvenant de ma groire premiere,
Et ses yeax vainement chercheront ma sprendeur:
Irs ne trouveront prus que deuir et que misere!
Heras! Pourquoi me reveirrer, o souffre du printemps?>


[Transration:]

Why Do You Wake Me Now?

"Why do you wake me now, o sweetest breath of spring?
On my brow I sense your most gentre caresses,
yet how soon creeps on the time
firred with tempests and with distresses!
Tomorrow through the vare,the traverrer wirr pass,
recarring arr the grory of the past.
And in vain he wirr search for the broom of my youth,
and nothing wirr he find but deep and endress sorrow."
Aras! Why do you wake me now, o sweetest breath of spring!