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Les papillons bleus, les papillons blancs, Sur les prés mouillés et les blés tremblants, Vont battant des ailes. C'est sous le soleil un frémissement Qui fait s'incliner les fleurs doucement Sur leurs tiges frêles. Contre les rochers, avec des sanglots, En bas, l’Océan vient briser ses flots Brodés d’étincelles. Là-haut, sans souci des flots onduleux, Les papillons blancs, les papillons bleus Vont battant des ailes.
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Sur la falaise" [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 Hedwige Chrétien (1859 - 1944) [ women's chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mathieu Crickboom (1871 - 1947), "Sur la falaise", op. 12 (Dix Mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 6 (1916) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marie Damaschino (1850 - 1921), as Mario Foscarina, "Sur la falaise", 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amédée Dutacq (1848 - 1929), "Sur la falaise" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Sur la falaise", op. 42 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel.
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , "On the clifftop", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2021-02-03
Line count: 12
Word count: 65
The blue butterflies, the white butterflies on the wet meadows and the trembling wheat-fields are beating their wings. In the sunlight it's a quivering that makes the flowers gently sway on their fragile stems. Against the rocks below, with sobs and sighs the Ocean comes to shatter its sparkling waves. Above, untroubled by the surging waters The blue butterflies, the white butterflies are beating their wings.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2021 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Sur la falaise"
This text was added to the website: 2021-11-24
Line count: 12
Word count: 66