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Dans le soir violet et les senteurs sereines Qu’un zéphir berce autour des bois énamourés, Le pèlerin s’en va doucement sous les [frênes]1. Il va. L’argent du fleuve et le velours des prés, Les coteaux de peluche et [la route]2 de soie S’enveloppent au loin des frissons mordorés. La caresse du ciel met un manteau de joie Sur la terre, et la terre encore chaude d’amour Se pâme de lumière et rit pour qu’on la voie. Pour qu'on la voie heureuse et qu'on l'aime à son tour, Elle tend au ciel nu toutes ses fleurs décloses Et disperse vers lui tous ses baisers d'un jour. Seul, baigné du bonheur qui plane sur les choses, Le pèlerin s’en va tout au long des chemins, Et parce que ses doigts ont touché tes doigts roses Il baise dans ses mains le parfum de tes mains.
A. Maddison sets stanzas 1-3, 5-6
Confirmed with Edmond Haraucourt, Seul, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, pages 84-85.
1 Maddison: "chênes"2 Maddison: "les routes"
Text Authorship:
- by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "Vespérale", written 1891, appears in Seul, in 2. L'adoration, no. 19, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier, first published 1891 [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 Adela Maddison (c1862 - 1929), "Vespérale", 1904, published 1904, stanzas 1-3,5-6 [ high voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies sur des poèmes d'Edmond Haraucourt, no. 2, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Lucy Fitz Gibbon) , "At evening", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Lucy Fitz Gibbon
This text was added to the website: 2020-01-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 146
In the violet evening and along serene paths That a zephyr lulls around enamored woods The pilgrim sweetly strolls beneath the [trees]1. He walks. The silver of the river and velvet of fields The plush hills and [the road]2 of silk Envelop themselves in bronze shivers. The caress of the sky places a mantle of joy Upon the earth, and the earth, still warm with love, Swoons with the light and laughs so to be seen. [... ... ...] Alone, bathed in the happiness that hovers over all, The pilgrim walks along the paths And because his fingers have touched your pink fingers He kisses in his hands the perfume of your hands.
1 Maddison: "oaks"
2 Maddison: "roads"
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "Vespérale", written 1891, appears in Seul, in 2. L'adoration, no. 19, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier, first published 1891
This text was added to the website: 2020-01-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 113