Un jour, un enfant [English translation]

A day will dawn

Over three branches of lilacs

That a child will behold

Just like a picture book

The world around him

Will be empty, and so

He'll imagine life

From a blank page

By drawing the shape of an orange

He'll give the sky its first sun

By drawing the bird

He'll invent the flowers

By searching the sound of the water

He'll hear the cry of the heart

By drawing the points of a star

This very child will find the path

Of the grown people who still

Look amazed

At the fruits of every day

And at the roses of love