Comme Dieu rayonne aujourd'hui

Comme Dieu rayonne aujourd'hui,
Comme il exulte, comme il fleurit
Parmi ces roses et ces fruits!

Comme il murmure en cette fontaine!
Ah! comme il chante en ces oiseaux...
Qu'elle est suave son haleine
Dans l'odorant printemps nouveau!

Comme il se baigne dans la lumière
Avec amour, mon jeune dieu!
Toutes les choses de la terre
Sont ses vêtements radieux.

Translation(s): DUT ENG GER

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• by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières Paroles, no. 10, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Comme Dieu rayonne", op. 95 no. 4 (1906), published 1906 [mezzo-soprano and piano], from La chanson d'Eve, no. 4, Éd. Heugel [ sung text verified 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Peter Low) , title 1: "How radiant God is", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , title 1: "Hoe stralend God is", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Wie Gott heut’ leuchtet

Wie Gott heut’ leuchtet,
und frohlockt und blüht
in Rosen und in Früchten!

Und wie er raunt aus diesem Quell!
Und wie er singt in diesen Vögeln …
Wie süß ist doch sein Odem
im Duft des holden Lenz’!

Wie er taucht ein ins Licht 
mit Liebe, mein junger Gott!
Alles auf Erden
ist sein strahlendes Gewand.

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• Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières Paroles, no. 10, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904 DUT ENG
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Gabriel Fauré. Go to the text.

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