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by Victor Segalen (1878 - 1919)

Ordre au soleil
Language: French (Français) 
Mâ, duc de Lou, ne pouvant consommer sa victoire,
  donna ordre au soleil de remonter jusqu'au sommet du Ciel.

Il le tenait là, fixe, au bout de sa lance :
  & le jour fut long comme une année
  & plein d'une ivresse sans nuit.

                  *

Laisse-moi, ô joie qui déborde,
  commander à mon soleil & le ramener à mon aube : 
  Que j'épuise ce bonheur d'aujourd'hui !

Las ! il échappe à mon doigt tremblant.
  Il a peur de toi, ô joie. Il s'enfuit, 
  il se dérobe, un nuage l'étreint & l'avale,

Et dans mon cœur il fait nuit.

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Segalen (1878 - 1919), "Ordre au soleil", written 1910-1911, appears in Stèles, in 4. Stèles occidentées, no. 7, first published 1914 [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 Georges Elbert Migot (1891 - 1976), "Ordre au soleil", published 1934 [ medium voice and instrumental ensemble ], from Deux stèles de Victor Segalen, no. 1, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-12-19
Line count: 13
Word count: 95

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