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by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919)

La rosée
Language: French (Français) 
Choisissant le moment
Si calme de l'aurore,
Où dans l'apaisement
La nature est encore,
La Vierge conduisait
Son Fils sur la colline :
Ainsi le lui disait
La volonté divine.

Sur le bord d'un chemin
Penchait  une églantine;
Jésus tendit la main
Pour l'avoir ; mais l'épine
Qui protégeait la fleur
Le blessa comme une arme,
Et Lui, dans sa douleur,
La baigna d'une larme.

Depuis, toutes les fleurs
Que les nuits font éclore,
Le cœur baigné de pleurs,
S'éveillent à l'aurore,
Rappelant le passé,
La première souffrance
De Jésus-Christ, blessé
Dès sa plus tendre enfance !

Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphan Bordèse (1847 - 1919), "La rosée", appears in Contes mystiques, no. 7 [author's text not yet checked 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-Henri Maréchal (1842 - 1924), "La rosée", 1890, published 1890 [ medium voice and piano ], from Contes mystiques, no. 7, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-08-03
Line count: 24
Word count: 94

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