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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Ai‑je des souvenirs, ai‑je des...
Language: French (Français) 
Ai-je des souvenirs, ai-je des espérances,
en te regardant, mon verger ?
Tu te repais autour de moi, ô troupeau d'abondance
et tu fais penser ton berger.

Laisse-moi contempler au travers de tes branches
la nuit qui va commencer.
Tu as travaillé ; pour moi c'était un dimanche, -
mon repos, m'a-t-il avancé ?

D'être berger, qu'y a-t-il de plus juste en somme ?
Se peut-il qu'un peu de ma paix
aujourd'hui soit entrée doucement dans tes pommes ?
Car tu sais bien, je m'en vais...

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, in 29. Verger, no. 5 [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 André-François Marescotti (1902 - 1995), "Ai-je des souvenirs", published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 1, Éd. Jean Jobert [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-10-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 80

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