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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

Léonide
Language: French (Français) 
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Vous dont la pitié nous défend,
Dieu ! guidez-moi vers mon enfant !

Vous avez délié l'esclave,
Et mon malheur n'a plus d'entrave :
Je marcherai donc devant moi,
Pleine d'amour, pleine de foi !
L'orage est en vain sur ma tête ;
Votre souffle éteint la tempête.

Vous dont la pitié nous défend,
Dieu ! guidez-moi vers mon enfant !
Quand les autres m'ont accablée,
C'est vous qui m'avez consolée.
Ils m'ont dérobé mon trésor ;
Mais vous me le rendrez encor !
Car vous êtes le dieu des mères,
Le vengeur des armes amères.

Vous dont la pitié nous défend,
Dieu ! guidez-moi vers mon enfant !

Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.


Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Léonide", subtitle: "Romance" [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):

  • possibly by Johann Christoph Vogel (1756 - 1788) or possibly by Adolphe-Louis-Charles Vogel (1808 - 1892), "Léonide", subtitle: "Romance", published 1843, Paris : à la librairie musicale d’E. Duverger; note: the BnF attributes the setting to J. C. Vogel, which seems erroneous
        Score: Gallica [external link]  [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-07-21
Line count: 18
Word count: 98

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