Rose de lumière, un mur qui s'effrite

Rose de lumière, un mur qui s'effrite, --
mais, sur la pente de la colline
cette [fleur]1 qui, haute hésite
dans son geste de Proserpine. 

Beaucoup d’ombre entre sans doute 
dans la sève de cette vigne ; 
et ce trop de clarté qui trépigne 
au-dessus d’elle, trompe la route.

Translation(s): ENG GER

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Authorship

• by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 3 [ 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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Rose de lumière un mur qui s'effrite", op. 206 no. 2, published 1939 [chorus], from Quatrains Valaisans, no. 2. [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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