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In friendship's name (Au nom de l'amitié)

[4.  Once the earth seemed full of gladness]

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Titre[4. Once the earth seemed full of gladness]
d'après Charles Graham et George Dance, In friendship's name, 1891 [chanson]
Distributeur d'origineRiley Brothers
FabricantJames Bamforth
Date1897
Lieu de fabricationAngleterre (Holmfirth, Yorkshire)
Description techniquelife models, photographie rehaussée de couleurs, plaque carrée fixe
DimensionsL. 83 mm l. 83 mm
CotePLM-00021-004 (Coll. Cinémathèque française)
In friendship's name - Partition musicale
Must we say farewell, dear heart ?
Must we part in bitter sorrow ?
Time alone will tell, dear heart,
Of the anguish of the morrow.
All our hope is past,
We our friendship now must sever;
Joy too sweet to last,
We must say good bye for ever !
As friends we met, as friends we part;

Would we had dearer grown,
And hand in hand and heart to heart,
Would that you were my own !
Though mem'ry lives to bring regret,
My love remains the same;
Though I thro' life can never thee forget,
We part in friendship's name
Once, the earth seem'd full of glade, Life was full of song;

And only joy and love, dear heart,
Inspired me all day long.
But now the world seems all of sadness,
The songs no longer sweet;
And love was but a shadow,
That vanish'd at our feet.
As friends we met, as friends we part;

Would we had dearer grown,
And hand in hand and heart to heart,
Would that you were my own;
Though mem'ry lives ti bring regret,
My love remains the same;
Though I thro'life may never thee forget,
We'll part in friendship's name.
Love's sweet day dream ends,
The golden vision is dispell'd, Good bye !

In friendship's name [Musique imprimée]/ George Dance et Charles Graham. - T.B. Harms & Co, cop. 1891. - [3] p. ; 24,3 cm x 29,7 cm. [photocopie]

Les sept vues reprennent tour à tour les différents moments d'une rupture amoureuse : l'annonce de la séparation (plaque 2), l'incompréhension (plaque 3), la nostalgie du passé (plaque 4), la tristesse qui submerge l'être laissé (plaque 5), le dernier réconfort (plaque 6) jusqu'à l'acceptation de la situation au nom de l'amitié passée (plaque 7).


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