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Quoique tes yeux ne la voient pas, Sache, en ton âme, qu'elle est là, Comme autrefois divine et blanche. Sur ce bord reposent ses mains. Sa tête est entre ces jasmins ; Là, ses pieds effleurent les branches. Elle sommeille en ces rameaux. Ses lèvres et ses yeux sont clos, Et sa bouche à peine respire. Parfois, la nuit, dans un éclair Elle apparaît les yeux ouverts, Et l'éclair dans ses yeux se mire. Un bref éblouissement bleu La découvre en ses longs cheveux ; Elle s'éveille, elle se lève. Et tout un jardin ébloui S'illumine au fond de la nuit, Dans le rapide éclair d'un rêve.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "Dans la Nymphée", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 12, 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), "Dans la Nymphée", op. 106 no. 5 (1914), published 1915 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le jardin clos, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Al nimfeu", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "In de nimf, de waterlelie", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Arkell) , "In the grotto", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Im Nymphenheiligtum", 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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Wiewohl du sie nicht siehst, so wisse, dass sie in deinem Herzen ist, wie einstmals, göttlich, hell und rein. Auf diesem Ufer ruhen ihre Hände. Ihr Haupt verbirgt sich im Jasmin; Dort rühren ihre Füße ans Geäst. Sie schlummert in den Zweigen. Augen und Mund geschlossen - kaum atmet sie. Manchmal, zur Nacht, erscheint im Blitze sie, die Augen offen; in ihren Augen spiegelt sich der Blitz. Im kurzen blauen Leuchten taucht sie auf mit ihrem langen Haar; Sie ist erwacht und steht nun auf. Der Garten, ganz verzaubert, leuchtet auf in tiefer Nacht im Blitze eines Traums.
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), "Dans la Nymphée", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 12, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-14
Line count: 18
Word count: 97