Néère

Le vent frais de l'aurore agite les lilas.
Néère, nue et blanche, et riant aux éclats,
Du bout d'un pied de neige, au bord de la rivière,
Agace le cristal de l'onde familière,
Cependant que, non loin, guettant l'âge nouveau,
Le satyre suspend son haleine au pipeau ;
Et l'enfant que sa grâce innocente décore,
Ignorante des mois, dans sa chair pure encore,
Prend le gâteau de miel du satyre rusé,
Qui prolonge en échange un étrange baiser.

Submitted by Bertram Kottmann

Authorship

• by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), "Néère", appears in Le chariot d'or, in 1. Les roses dans la coupe, no. 16, Paris, Éd du Mercure de France, first published 1901 [ 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 Alfredo Amadei , "Néère", copyright © 1914 [voice and piano], from Six Mélodies, Chant et piano, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Louis Rouhier (A.2.A.) [
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