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L'aube blanche dit à mon rêve: "Éveille-toi, le soleil luit". Mon âme écoute et je soulève Un peu mes paupières vers lui. Un rayon de lumière touche La pâle fleur de mes yeux bleus; Une flamme éveille ma bouche, Un souffle éveille mes cheveux. Et mon âme, comme une rose Tremblante, lente, tout le jour, S'éveille à la beauté des choses, Comme mon [cœur]1 à leur amour. Il n'est rien qui ne m'émerveille ! Et je dis en mon rire d'or : Je suis une enfant qui s'éveille Jusqu'au moment où Dieu l'endort.
G. Fauré sets stanzas 1-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 14, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904 [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 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "L'aube blanche", op. 95 no. 5 (1906), published 1906, stanzas 1-3 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from La Chanson d'Ève, no. 5, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Lacombe (1837 - 1927), "L'aube blanche dit à mon rêve", op. 132 no. 6 (1907), published [1909] [ medium voice and piano ], from La chanson d'Ève, no. 6, Éd. F. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "Het witte ochtendgloren", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The white dawn", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der weiße Morgendämmer", copyright © 2015, (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.
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Word count: 92
Der weiße Morgendämmer sagt im Traume mir: „Wach auf, die Sonne strahlt.“ Mein Herz horcht auf und leicht heb’ ich die Lider. Ein Lichtstrahl trifft die blasse Blume meiner blauen Augen; ein Sonnenstrahl weckt meinen Mund, ein Lufthauch weckt mein Haar. Und meine Seel’, der Rose gleich erwacht sie schauernd, ohne Hast an jedem Morgen und öffnet sich der Dinge Schönheit, so wie mein Herz sich ihrer Liebe öffnet. Nichts gibt es, was mich nicht entzückt! Ich sag’s mit gold’nem Lachen: Ich bin ein Kind, welches sich regt bis Gott es schlafen legt.
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- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 14, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 93