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by José-María de Hérédia (1842 - 1905)

Épigramme funéraire
Language: French (Français) 
Ici git, Étranger, la verte sauterelle
Que durant deux saisons nourrit la jeune Hellé,
Et dont l’aile vibrant sous le pied dentelé
Bruissait dans le pin, le cytise ou l’airelle.

Elle s’est tue, hélas ! la lyre naturelle,
La muse des guérets, des sillons et du blé ;
De peur que son léger sommeil ne soit troublé,
Ah ! passe vite, ami, ne pèse point sur elle.

C’est là. Blanche, au milieu d’une touffe de thym,
Sa pierre funéraire est fraîchement posée.
Que d’hommes n’ont pas eu ce suprême destin !

Des larmes d’un enfant sa tombe est arrosée,
Et l’Aurore pieuse y fait chaque matin
Une libation de gouttes de rosée.

First appeared in Revue des Deux Mondes, January 1, 1888, and included later in Les Trophées, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, 1893.


Text Authorship:

  • by José-María de Hérédia (1842 - 1905), written 1887?, appears in Les Trophées, in 1. La Grèce et la Sicile, in 4. Épigrammes et Bucoliques, no. 4, first published 1888 [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 Jacques Thierac (d. 1972), "Épigramme funéraire", published [1920] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]

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