The oasis | In the heart of the burning desert

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by André Alexandre (1860 - 1928)

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

L'oasis

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Au sein du désert enflammé
Il est un coin tout parfumé
De vert feuillage et de mystère.
La brise y chante jour et nuit 
Et du creux des rochers jaillit
Une source qui désaltère.

Le soleil, sous l'ombrage en fleurs,
N'a plus que d'exquises douceurs
Pour la caravane en souffrance
Et voici, le long des palmiers,
Dans les coeurs soudain reveillès
Passer un souffle d'espérance

Oasis, oasis d'amour,
Accueille moi, divin séjour
Où le front courbé se relève,
Pour qu'après les simouns maudits
Je retrouve en ton paradis
La fraîcheur de mon premier rêve.

Text Authorship:

by André Alexandre (1860 - 1928) [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 Félix-Alfred Fourdrain (1880 - 1923), "L'oasis", c1913, published 1913 [voice and piano], Milan: Ricordi [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The oasis", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-03-26
Line count: 18
Word count: 94

The oasis

Language: English after the French (Français)

In the heart of the burning desert
[There] is a corner all perfumed
With green foliage and mystery.
The breeze sings there day and night
And from the hollow of the rocks gushes
A spring which quenches [thirst].

The sun, under the shade in bloom,
[Holds] nothing but exquisite mildness
For the caravan in suffering...
And here, along the palms,
In [their] hearts suddenly awakened
Pass[es] a breath of hope.

Oasis, oasis of love,
Welcome me, divine sojourn
Where the bowed [face] lifts itself,
So that after the cursed desert winds
I [may] find in your paradise
The freshness of my first dream.

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a text in French (Français) by André Alexandre (1860 - 1928)
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This text was added to the website: 2018-12-23
Line count: 18
Word count: 103