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Avril, et c'est le point du jour. Tes blondes sœurs qui te ressemblent, En ce moment, toutes ensembles S'avancent vers toi, cher Amour. Tu te tiens dans un clos ombreux De myrte et d'aubépine blanche ; La porte s'ouvre entre les branches ; Le chemin est mystérieux. Elles, lentes, en longues robes, Une à une, main dans la main, Franchissent le seuil indistinct Où de la nuit devient de l'aube. Celle qui s'approche d'abord, Regarde l'ombre, te découvre, Crie, et la fleur de ses yeux s'ouvre Splendide dans un rire d'or. Et, jusqu'à la dernière sœur Toutes tremblent, tes lèvres touchent Leurs lèvres, l'éclair de ta bouche Éclate jusque dans leur cœur.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "La messagère", appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898 [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), "La messagère", op. 106 no. 3 (1914), published 1915 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le jardin clos, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La missatgera", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "De boodschapper", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "The messenger", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Vorboten", 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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April, der Tag bricht an. Deine blonden Schwestern, die dir gleichen, gehen soeben alle auf dich zu, Geliebte. Du ruhst in deinem schatt’gen Hain aus Weißdorn und aus Myrten: Das Tor schwingt auf zwischen den Zeigen; voller Geheimnisse liegt der Pfad. Bedächtig queren sie, in fließendem Gewand, eine nach der andern, Hand in Hand, die unbestimmte Schwelle an der die Nacht zum Morgen wird. Die erste, die sich nähert, erblickt im Schatten dich. Laut ruft sie, ihre Blütenaugen öffnen sich in strahlend gold’nem Lachen. Und jede einzelne der Schwestern bebt, als deine Lippen ihre Lippen trafen, und der Blitzstrahl deines Munds sie bis ins Herz durchzuckte.
Text Authorship:
- 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), "La messagère", appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-14
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Word count: 106