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L'automne [est]1 passé, l'hiver est venu, L'automne [est]1 passé qui vers l'inconnu Emporte bien loin nos mélancolies. Doux ciel de l'hiver, ô pâle ciel bleu, Que je t'aime ! et comme auprès d'un bon feu L'aile de nos cœurs frileux se replie ! S'il pleut sur la mer et s'il grèle, eh bien, Nous nous enfermons -- nous n'en savons rien, Et nous n'osons plus regarder les voiles. Que les verts [sentiers, tout]2 blancs aujourd'hui, Nous paraissent gais, et comme, la nuit, Nous nous souvenons des blondes étoiles ! Nous nous rapprochons, nous nous aimons mieux... La lueur du feu jette dans [les]3 yeux Un éclair de pourpre et d'or qui flamboie, Et si, le matin, le ciel se fait clair, Dans son manteau blanc frissonne l'hiver Tout illuminé d'un rayon de joie !
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Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 38, first published 1876 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "L'hiver", 1886, published 1914, first performed 1891 [ vocal duet for soprano and tenor with piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie (Salabert) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "Chanson d'hiver", 1889 [ high voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "冬", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Winter", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 133
Autumn is past and winter is come. Autumn is past, taking away with it into the unknown all our sorrows. Gentle winter sky, pale blue sky, how I love you, and how our chilly hearts huddle round a good fire! If it rains over the ocean and hail falls, we shut ourselves away and don’t know anything about it. We no longer dare look at the sails. How the green paths, now white, cheer us and how at night we remember blonde stars! We get closer together, we love each other better. The fire’s glow is reflected as crimson and gold flames in our eyes. If the sky is clear in the morning, winter shivers in its white coat, lit up by a ray of joy!
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2014 by Faith J. Cormier, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 38, first published 1876
This text was added to the website: 2014-11-11
Line count: 18
Word count: 126