De bleke timene, under månen

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by Séverin Faust (1872 - 1945), as Camille Mauclair

Translation © by Marianne Beate Kielland

Les pâles heures, sous la lune

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: NOR

Les pâles heures, sous la lune,
En chantant jusqu'à mourir,
Avec un triste sourire,
Vont une à une
Sur un lac baigné de lune,
Où, avec un sombre sourire,
Elles tendent, une à une,
Les mains qui mènent à mourir;
Et certains, blèmes sous la lune
Aux yeux d'iris sans sourire,
Sachant que l'heure est de mourir,
Donnent leurs mains une à une 
Et tous s'en vont dans l'ombre et dans la lune
Pour s'alanguir et puis mourir
Avec les Heures une à une,
Les Heures au pàle sourire.

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• E. Chausson

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Text Authorship:

by Séverin Faust (1872 - 1945), as Camille Mauclair, no title, written 1894, appears in Sonatines d'automne, in Lieds, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Librairie académique Perrin, first published 1894 [author's text not yet checked 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 Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "Les Heures", op. 27 no. 1, from Trois Lieder de Camille Mauclair, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 16
Word count: 89

De bleke timene, under månen

Language: Norwegian (Bokmål) after the French (Français)

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De bleke timene, under månen,
som med et trist smil
synger inntil du dør,
Går én etter én
over en innsjø badet i måneskinn,
Hvor, med et dunkelt smil,
de rekker ut, én etter én,
hendene som fører deg til døden;
Og noen av dem, bleke under månen,
med irisens øyne uten smil,
Vel vitende om at dødens time er kommet,
tilbyr sine hender - én etter én,
og alle vandrer inn til skyggene og månen
for å lengte og deretter dø
med Timene - én etter én,
Timene med de bleke smil.

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Translation of title "Les Heures" = "Timene"

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a text in French (Français) by Séverin Faust (1872 - 1945), as Camille Mauclair, no title, written 1894, appears in Sonatines d'automne, in Lieds, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Librairie académique Perrin, first published 1894
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This text was added to the website: 2024-02-17
Line count: 16
Word count: 91