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Toute, avec sa robe et ses fleurs, Elle, ici, redevint poussière, Et son âme emportée ailleurs Renaquit en chant de lumière. Mais un léger lien fragile Dans la mort brisé doucement, Encerclait ses tempes débiles D'impérissables diamants. En signe d'elle, à cette place, Seules, parmi le sable blond, Les pierres éternelles tracent Encor l'image de son front. Celui que les dieux ont conduit, Qui sur sa route les a vues. S'arrête et contemple ébloui Cette splendeur qu'il croit perdue. Perdue ! Et des rayons s'y posent ! Ô voyageur, tu ne sais pas Le sens mystérieux des choses ; Elle, seule, ne le fut pas.
G. Fauré sets stanzas 1-3
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "Inscription sur le sable", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 10, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898 [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 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Inscription sur le sable", op. 106 no. 8 (1914), published 1915, stanzas 1-3 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le jardin clos, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Inscripció a la sorra", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "Letters in het zand", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Arkell) , "Inscription on the sand", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "In Sand geschrieben", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 102
Helemaal, met haar jurk en haar bloemen, Zij, hier, wordt tot stof opnieuw, en haar geest elders gevoerd wordt herboren in het lied van licht. Maar een dun breekbaar lijntje door de dood zacht gebroken, omcirkelde haar verzwakte slapen met onvergankelijke diamanten. Als een teken van haar, eeuwige stenen, achtergebleven, tussen dat blonde zand, hier op deze plek nog het beeld van haar gezicht dragen.
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- Translation from French (Français) to Dutch (Nederlands) copyright © 2009 by Pieter van der Woel, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "Inscription sur le sable", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 10, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
This text was added to the website: 2009-07-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 65