Quand Medjnoun, loin de Léïla
Language: French (Français)
Quand Medjnoun, loin de Léïla,
Dans les déserts s'en alla,
Au piége il prit mainte gazelle,
Et la voyant, dit : voilà
Comme les yeux sont doux chez Elle.
Puis l'ayant prise, il délivrait
La mignonne au fin jarret,
Et suivait ses bonds dans l'espace,
En pensant : tel est l'attrait
De Léïla quand elle passe.
Et quand un chasseur s'avançait
Qui, pour égorger, chassait,
Il lui criait : Va-t-en, blasphème !
Tuer des gazelles, c'est
Comme la tuer elle-même.
Au désert, moi, si j'avais fui,
Ce qui vaincrait mon ennui
Ce serait le lion qui gronde ;
Car je me dirais : c'est Lui
Dont résonne la voix profonde.
Puis j'irais à l'antre écarté
Qu'il dévaste en liberté,
Pour y contempler son œil mâle,
Où je verrais la fierté
De l'œil de mon cavalier pâle.
Et s'il avait soif, j'offrirais,
Pour l'abreuver, mon sang frais,
Tàchant d'oublier dans sa gueule,
Combien l'autre manque auprès
De ma passion toujours seule.
Translation(s): ENG
List of language codes
X. Leroux sets stanzas 1-3
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Les nuits persanes par Armand Renaud, Paris, Alphonese Lemerre, 1870, pages 84-85.
Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]
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When Medjnoun went into the deserts
Language: English after the French (Français)
When Medjnoun went into the deserts
Far from Leila,
With the trap he took many gazelles,
And looking at them said: look
How its eyes are sweet [like hers].
Then having taken them, he freed
The cute thing with the thin hock
And followed its bounds in the space,
Thinking: this is like the Leila’s attraction
When she passes.
And when a hunter came forward
Who chased [it] in order to cut it’s throat,
He cried at him: “Away [with this] blasphemy!
Killing gazelles is
Like killing [Leila] herself!”
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About the headline (FAQ)
Translations of title(s):
"Gazelles et Lions" = "Gazelles and lions"
"Gazelles" = "Gazelles"
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Based on- a text in French (Français) by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895), "Gazelles et Lions", written 1870?, appears in Les nuits persanes, in 5. La solitaire, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870
- This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Xavier Henri Napoleon Leroux. Go to the text.
Text added to the website: 2019-05-02 00:00:00.
Last modified: 2019-05-02 22:13:04
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