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Quand Medjnoun, loin de Léïla, Dans les déserts s'en alla, Au piége il prit mainte gazelle, Et la voyant, dit : voilà Comme les yeux sont doux chez Elle. Puis l'ayant prise, il délivrait La mignonne au fin jarret, Et suivait ses bonds dans l'espace, En pensant : tel est l'attrait De Léïla quand elle passe. Et quand un chasseur s'avançait Qui, pour égorger, chassait, Il lui criait : Va-t-en, blasphème ! Tuer des gazelles, c'est Comme la tuer elle-même. Au désert, moi, si j'avais fui, Ce qui vaincrait mon ennui Ce serait le lion qui gronde ; Car je me dirais : c'est Lui Dont résonne la voix profonde. Puis j'irais à l'antre écarté Qu'il dévaste en liberté, Pour y contempler son œil mâle, Où je verrais la fierté De l'œil de mon cavalier pâle. Et s'il avait soif, j'offrirais, Pour l'abreuver, mon sang frais, Tàchant d'oublier dans sa gueule, Combien l'autre manque auprès De ma passion toujours seule.
X. Leroux sets stanzas 1-3
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Confirmed with Les nuits persanes par Armand Renaud, Paris, Alphonese Lemerre, 1870, pages 84-85.
Text Authorship:
- by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895), "Gazelles et Lions", written 1870?, appears in Les nuits persanes, in 5. La solitaire, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870 [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 Xavier Henri Napoleon Leroux (1863 - 1919), "Gazelles", published c1886, stanzas 1-3 [ high voice and piano ], from La Solitaire, mélodies Persanes de Armand Renaud, no. 3, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2016-11-30
Line count: 30
Word count: 154
When Medjnoun went into the deserts Far from Leila, With the trap he took many gazelles, And looking at them said: look How its eyes are sweet [like hers]. Then having taken them, he freed The cute thing with the thin hock And followed its bounds in the space, Thinking: this is like the Leila’s attraction When she passes. And when a hunter came forward Who chased [it] in order to cut it’s throat, He cried at him: “Away [with this] blasphemy! Killing gazelles is Like killing [Leila] herself!” [...] [...] [...]
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Translations of title(s):
"Gazelles et Lions" = "Gazelles and lions"
"Gazelles" = "Gazelles"
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895), "Gazelles et Lions", written 1870?, appears in Les nuits persanes, in 5. La solitaire, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870
This text was added to the website: 2019-05-02
Line count: 18
Word count: 92
