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Quatre romances

Song Cycle by Victoire Lyon

1. Noël  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Le ciel est noir, la terre est blanche.
Cloches, carillonnez gaîment!
Jésus est né; la Vierge penche
Sur lui son visage charmant.
 
Pas de courtines festonnées
Pour préserver l'enfant du froid;
Rien que les toiles d'araignées
Qui Pendent des poutres du toit.
 
Il tremble sur la paille fraîche,
Ce cher petit enfant Jésus,
Et pour l'échauffer dans sa crèche
L'âne et le bœuf soufflent dessus.
 
La neige au chaume pend ses franges,
Mais sur le toit s'ouvre le Ciel,
Et, tout en blanc, le chœur des anges
Chante aux bergers: "Noël! Noël!"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), title 1: "Noël", title 2: "Le Jésus des Neiges", written 1861, appears in Émaux et Camées, first published 1863

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) (Emily Wyatt) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

First published in the journal "Le Papillon" (January 10, 1861) under the title "Le Jésus des Neiges"; later published in 1863 in Émaux et Camées under the title "Noël"


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1. Weihnachten

Language: German (Deutsch) 
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Text Authorship:

  • Singable translation by M. Weinberg

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), title 1: "Noël", title 2: "Le Jésus des Neiges", written 1861, appears in Émaux et Camées, first published 1863
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