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by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900)

Naïs, je ne vois plus la couleur de tes...
Language: French (Français) 
— Naïs, je ne vois plus la couleur de tes bagues...
— Lydé, je ne vois plus les cygnes sur les vagues...
— Naïs, n'entends-tu pas la flûte des bergers ?
— Lydé, ne sens-tu pas l'odeur des orangers ?
— D'où vient qu'en moi, Naïs, monte un frisson amer
À regarder mourir le soleil sur la mer ?
— D'où vient ainsi, Lydé, qu'en frémissant j'écoute
Le bruit lointain des chars qui rentrent sur la route ?
Et Naïs et Lydé, les vierges de quinze ans,
Seules sur la terrasse aux parfums épuisants,
Sentent leur cœur trop lourd fondre en larmes obscures
Et, sous leurs fronts penchés mêlant leurs chevelures,
D'une étreinte où la bouche à la bouche s'unit,
Sanglotent doucement dans le soir infini...

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Note: first published in Le Mercure de France, April 1897 under the title "Naïs et Lydé"; later published in Aux Flancs du Vase (Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, 1898) under the title "Les Vierges au crépuscule".


Text Authorship:

  • by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), title 1: "Les Vierges au crépuscule", title 2: "Naïs et Lydé", written 1897, appears in Aux Flancs du Vase, no. 16, first published 1897 [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 Hélène de Callias (1884 - 1963), "Les Vierges au crépuscule", published 1920? [ vocal duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano ], Paris : Henry Parville [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Émile Jodeau , "Les Vierges au crépuscule", published [1912] [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Henri Moreau-Febvre , "Les Vierges au crépuscule", published 1922 [ tenor or soprano and piano ], Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jacques Pillois (1877 - 1935), "Les Vierges au crépuscule", published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes d'Albert Samain, Paris, Éd. A. Zunz Mathot [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-08-15
Line count: 14
Word count: 122

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