Easy Quiz: Identify song from translation

Don't forsake me, please,
This must be forgot,
All can be forgot
That already flees,
To forget the while
Of the words mis-said
And the time that's dead,
And to know how I'll
Make the hours depart
That killed by and by
(By a blow of why)
The enraptured heart.
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please.

I'll offer you
Pearls made of rain
From a domain
Where rain never falls.
I'll mine the ground days
Till death and beyond
To have your shape donned
With gold and with rays.
I'll make your realm seen
Where love's king of all,
With law at love's call
Where you'll be the queen.
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please.

Don't forsake me, please,
I'll invent for you
Babble meant for you
Only you can seize.
I will turn you to
Lovers that one sees
When their hearts unfreeze
Twice from burning through.
There'a king I'll find
In the histories
Dead by reason he's
Never seen your kind.
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please.

We have seen how oft
Ancient flames have sprayed
From old peaks aloft
That we thought decayed.
Seems we can attest
To the blackened field
Where more wheat will yield
Than at April's best.
And when twilight's back
And the sky flames red,
The red and the black
Do not ever wed.
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please.

Don't forsake me, please,
I won't weep and fret,
I won't speak, I'll yet
Hide for your sake, please,
Staring, if you'll let,
As you dance and grin,
Hear as you perfect
Songs and laugh again.
Let me be the twin
Shadow of your shade,
Shadow of your hand,
Shadow of your hound.
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please,
Don't forsake me, please.

What language has it been translated from?

Originally Posted by F A B Scott

What language has it been translated from?

French

Answer to quiz is Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas":


Ne me quitte pas
Il faut oublier
Tout peut s’oublier
Qui s’enfuit déjà
Oublier le temps
Des malentendus
Et le temps perdu
A savoir comment
Oublier ces heures
Qui tuaient parfois
(A coups de pourquoi)
Le coeur du bonheur

Ne me quitte pa
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Moi je t’offrirai
Des perles de pluie
Venues de pays
Oú il ne pleut pas
Je creuserai la terre
Jusqu’après ma mort
Pour couvrir ton corps
D’or et de lumière
Je ferai un domaine
Où l’amour sera roi
Où l’amour sera loi
Où tu seras reine

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Je t’inventerai
Des mots insensés
Que tu comprendras
Je te parlerai
De ces amants-là
Qui ont vu deux fois
Leurs coeurs s’embraser
Je te raconterai
L’histoire de ce roi
Mort de n’avoir pas
Pu te rencontrer

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

On a vu souvent
Rejaillir le feu
De l’ancien volcan
Qu’on croyait trop vieux
Il est paraît-il
Des terres brulées
Donnant plus de blé
Qu’un meilleur avril
Et quand vient le soir
Pour qu’un ciel flamboie
Le rouge et le noir
Ne s’épousent-ils pas

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas

Je ne vais plus pleurer
Je ne vais plus parler
Je me cacherai là
A te regarder
Danser et sourire
Et à t’écouter
Chanter et puis rire
Laisse-moi devenir
L’ombre de ton ombre
L’ombre de ta main
L’ombre de ton chien

Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas
Ne me quitte pas