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by Camille du Locle (1832 - 1903)

Le retour
Language: French (Français) 
Est-ce donc toi, ma vieille amie,
Déjà si grande et si jolie,
Vrai, Marguerite, est-ce bien vous ?
Vite pour le prouver, mignonne,
Qu'au pauvre voyageur on donne
Un baiser bien lent et bien doux.

Pourquoi te cacher sous ta mante ?
Veux-tu le refuser, méchante,
Ce baiser si long temps promis ?
O mon ingrate blanche et rose,
Six ans d'absence, est-ce une chose
A faire oublier ses amis ?

Comme vos regards étincellent
Les belles boucles qui ruissellent
ce col souple et gracieux !
Heureux celui qui fera luire
Sur ta lèvre rose un sourire,
Une larme dans tes grands yeux.

Mais tu rougis, chère innocente,
Tu voiles de ta main tremblante
Tes regards purs comme un bon jour ;
Qui serait-ce donc, je te prie,
Marguerite, ma vieille amie,
Si j'allais te parler d'amour ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Camille du Locle (1832 - 1903) [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 Louis-Étienne-Ernest Rey (1823 - 1909), as Ernest Reyer, "Le retour", c1870 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-09-19
Line count: 24
Word count: 131

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