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by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933)

En expirant j’entraînerai l’univers dans...
Language: French (Français) 
En expirant j’entraînerai l’univers dans ma tombe ouverte.
Ce corps où l’infini souffrait
Où fleurissait la terre verte
Aura le poids du monde inerte.
Et les astres verront d’en haut,
Quel qu’étroit que soit chez les hommes
Le lieu où rêveront nos os
Dans le sol du funèbre somme
L’immensité de mon tombeau !

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), "En expirant j'entraînerai", appears in L'honneur de souffrir, no. 42, Paris, Éd. Grasset - 'Les Cahiers verts', first published 1927 [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 Hélène Covatti-Dussaut (1910 - 2005), "En expirant, j'entraînerai l'univers", published 2020 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 8, Clichy, Éd. Musicales Artchipel [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-08-19
Line count: 9
Word count: 53

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