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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Heureux qui de l’oubli ne fuit point les...
Language: French (Français) 
Heureux qui de l’oubli ne fuit point les ténèbres !
Heureux qui ne sait pas combien d’échos funèbres
Le bruit d’un nom fait retentir !
Et si la gloire est inquiète,
Et si la palme du poëte
Est une palme de martyr !

Sans craindre le chasseur, l’orage ou le vertige,
Heureux l’oiseau qui plane et l’oiseau qui voltige !
Heureux qui ne veut rien tenter !
Heureux qui suit ce qu’il doit suivre !
Heureux qui ne vit que pour vivre,
Qui ne chante que pour chanter !

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Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1823, appears in Odes et Ballades, in 2. Odes, Livre Deuxième - 1822-1823, in 1. À mes odes, no. 2 [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 Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "L'Obscurité", 1897 [ four-part chorus a cappella ], Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-11-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 82

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