Sarantos — Paroles et traduction des paroles de la chanson The Holy Night
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Paroles
There was a man who went out in the dark night to borrow live coals to kindle a fire. He went from hut to hut and knocked. «Dear friends, help
me!» said he. «My wife has just given birth to a child, and I must make a fire to warm her and the little one.»
But it was way in the night, and all the people were asleep. No one replied.
The man walked and walked. At last he saw the gleam of a fire a long way
off. Then, he went in that direction and saw that the fire was burning in the open. A lot of sheep were were sleeping around the fire, and an old
shepherd sat and watched over the flock.
When the man who wanted to borrow fire came up to the sheep, he saw
that three big dogs lay asleep at the shepherd’s feet. All three awoke when
the man approached and opened their great jaws, as though they wanted
to bark; but not a sound was heard. The man noticed that the hair on their
backs stood up and that their sharp, white teeth glistened in the firelight.
They dashed toward him.
He felt that one of them bit at his leg and one at this hand and that one
clung to this throat. But their jaws and teeth wouldn’t obey them, and the
man didn’t suffer the least harm.
Now the man wished to go farther, to get what he needed. But the sheep
lay back to back and so close to one another that he couldn’t pass them.
Then, the man stepped upon their backs and walked over them and up to the fire. And not one of the animals awoke or moved.
When the man had almost reached the fire, the shepherd looked up. He was a surly old man, who was unfriendly and harsh toward human beings.
And when he saw the strange man coming, he seized the long spiked staff,
which he always held in his hand when he tended his flock, and threw it at him. The staff came right toward the man, but, before it reached him, it turned off to one side and whizzed past him, far out in the meadow.
Now the man came up to the shepherd and said to him: «Good man, help
me, and lend me a little fire! My wife has just given birth to a child, and I must make a fire to warm her and the little one.»
The shepherd would rather have said no, but when he pondered that the
dogs couldn’t hurt the man, and the sheep had not run from him, and that
the staff had not wished to strike him, he was a little afraid and dared not
deny the man that which he asked.
«Take as much as you need!» he said to the man.
But then the fire was nearly burnt out. There were no logs or branches left,
only a big heap of live coals, and the stranger had neither spade nor shovel
wherein he could carry the red-hot coals.
When the shepherd saw this, he said again: «Take as much as you need!»
And he was glad that the man wouldn’t be able to take away any coals.
But the man stopped and picked coals from the ashes with his bare hands,
and laid them in his mantle. And he didn’t burn his hands when he touched them, nor did the coals scorch his mantle; but he carried them
away as if they had been nuts or apples.
And when the shepherd, who was such a cruel and hardhearted man, saw
all this, he began to wonder to himself. What kind of a night is this, when
the dogs do not bite, the sheep are not scared, the staff does not kill, or the
fire scorch? He called the stranger back and said to him: «What kind of a night is this? And how does it happen that all things show you
compassion?»
Then said the man: «I cannot tell you if you yourself do not see it.» And he wished to go his way, that he might soon make a fire and warm his wife
and child.
But the shepherd did not wish to lose sight of the man before he had found
out what all this might portend. He got up and followed the man till they
came to the place where he lived.
Then the shepherd saw the man didn’t have so much as a hut to dwell in,
but that his wife and babe were lying in a mountain grotto, where there
was nothing except the cold and naked stone walls.
But the shepherd thought that perhaps the poor innocent child might
freeze to death there in the grotto; and, although he was a hard man, he was touched, and thought he would like to help it. And he loosened the
knapsack from his shoulder, took from it a soft white sheepskin, gave it to the strange man, and said that he should let the child sleep on it.
But just as soon as he showed that he, too, could be merciful, his eyes were
opened, and he saw what he had not been able to see before, and heard
what he could not have heard before.
He saw that all around him stood a ring of little silver-winged angels, and
each held a stringed instrument, and all sang in loud tones that tonight
the Saviour was born who should redeem the world from its sins.
Then he understood how all things were so happy this night and they
didn’t want to do anything wrong.
And it was not only around the shepherd that there were angels, but he saw them everywhere. They sat inside the grotto, they sat outside on the
mountain, and they flew under the heavens. They came marching in great
companies, and, as they passed, they paused and cast a glance at the child.
There was such jubilation and such gladness and songs and play! And all
this he saw in the dark night whereas before he could not have made out
anything. He was so happy because his eyes had been opened that he fell
upon his knees and thanked God.
What that shepherd saw, we might also see, for the angels fly down from
heaven every Christmas Eve, if we could only see them.
You must remember this, for it is as true, as true as that I see you and you
see me. It is not revealed by the light of lamps or candles, and it does not
depend upon sun and moon; but that which is needful is that we have such
eyes as can see God’s glory.
Traduction des paroles
mais que sa femme et son bébé étaient couchés dans une grotte de montagne, où il
n'était rien sauf les murs de Pierre froids et nus.
Mais le berger pensait que peut-être le pauvre enfant innocent pourrait
geler à mort il y a dans la grotte; et, bien qu'il était un homme dur, il a été touché, et a pensé qu'il aimerait l'aider. Et il a desserré le
Sac À Dos de son épaule, en prit une douce peau de mouton blanche, La donna à l'homme étrange, et dit qu'il devrait laisser l'enfant dormir dessus.
Mais dès qu'il a montré que lui aussi pouvait être miséricordieux, ses yeux étaient
ouverts, et il vit ce qu'il n'avait pas pu le voir avant, et entendu
ce qu'il n'aurait pas pu entendre auparavant.
Il vit que tout autour de lui se tenait un anneau de petits anges aux ailes d'argent, et
chacun tenait un instrument à cordes, et tous chantaient dans des tons forts que ce soir
le Sauveur est né qui doit racheter le monde de ses péchés.
Puis il a compris comment toutes les choses étaient si heureux cette nuit et ils
ne voulait pas faire quelque chose de mal.
Et ce n'était pas seulement autour du berger qu'il y avait des anges, mais il les voyait partout. Ils se sont assis à l'intérieur de la grotte, ils se sont assis à l'extérieur sur la
montagne, et ils ont volé sous les cieux. Ils sont venus en grand
entreprises, et, comme ils ont passé, ils ont fait une pause et jeter un coup d'oeil à l'enfant.
Il y avait une telle jubilation et une telle joie et des chansons et des jeux! Et tous
ce qu'il a vu dans la nuit noire alors qu'avant il ne pouvait pas faire sortir
quoi. Il était si heureux parce que ses yeux avaient été ouverts qu'il est tombé
sur ses genoux et a remercié Dieu.
Ce que ce berger a vu, nous pourrions aussi le voir, car les anges descendent de
le paradis chaque veille de Noël, si seulement nous pouvions les voir.
Vous devez vous souvenir de ça, car c'est aussi vrai, aussi vrai que je vous vois et vous
me voir. Il n'est pas révélé par la lumière des lampes ou des bougies, et il n'a pas
dépendez du soleil et de la Lune; mais ce qui est nécessaire, c'est que nous en ayons
yeux comme peut voir la gloire de Dieu.