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by Georges Louis Edmond Docquois (1863 - 1927)

Mai
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Mai ! Les arbres du verger 
Sont poudrés de neige rose !
Mai ! S'envole ma névrose !
Mai ! Mon cœur est plus léger !

Mai ! La brise est plus câline !
Mai ! Va-t'en, nuage gris !
Les fillettes de Paris 
Se voilent de mousseline.

Mai ! Le moine en sa cellule 
Est troublé par les oiseaux.
Mai ! Déjà sur les roseaux 
Voltige la libellule.

Mai ! Madame l'hirondelle 
Fait des trilles sur le toit.
Je me sens renaître. 
Et toi, ne renais-tu point, ma belle !

Mai ! Le garςon fait le guet 
Avec un amoureux zèle 
Pour parer sa demoiselle 
De quatre brins de muguet.

Mai ! L'on parque les moutons !
Jouons une pastorale !
Mai ! La joie est générale ! 
Mai ! Tous nous ressuscitons !

Mai ! Quel délice physique !
Mai ! Quel aimable frisson !
Mai ! J'ai fait cette chanson !
Mai ! Qu'on la mette en musique !

Text Authorship:

  • by Georges Louis Edmond Docquois (1863 - 1927) [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 Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Mai", op. 146 no. 8 (1914), published 1915 [ voice and piano ], from La cendre rouge, no. 8, Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "May", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-04-29
Line count: 28
Word count: 132

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