Dans la fontaine

Je t'ai vue, reflétée dans la fontaine,
Dans la fontaine transparente ;
Ton image était lointaine
A peine apparente.

L’or de tes cheveux s’argentait 
Comme en un glauque clair de lune
Et ton regard se perdair
Dans l’eau plutôt brune.

Ton corsage pres que entre vu
Mourait enrêve
Vision de l’imprévu
Que l’esprit achève...

Achève dans l’incertain
Et sur ce miroir tremblant,
Tes mains fleurissaient soudain
Comme émergent des lotus blancs.

Submitted by Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

Authorship

• by Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863 - 1936), as Paul Gravollet, "Dans la fontaine", written 1903, appears in Les Frissons, no. 3 [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

• by André Caplet (1879 - 1925), "Dans la fontaine", 1903, published 1905 [voice and piano], from Frissons, no. 3, Éd. J. Hamelle [ sung text verified 1 time]

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