Taking leave from France

I travel away!

Adieu, my joyful France,

Where I found the dearest home,

Thou, who tended to me in childhood.

Adieu, thou land, thou lovely time --

The boat is carrying me so far away from happiness!

But it bears only half of me:

One part shall ever remain thine,

My joyful land -- and may that part urge thee

To remember the other part! --