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Deux Mélodies, poésies de Paul Fort

by Henri Tomasi (1901 - 1971)

1. Par les dunes
 (Sung text)

Language: French (Français) 
Dans les chardons bleus, qu’elle se fait tendre,
La voix de la mer qui s’enfle au rivage
Quand saurais-je, ô nuit, ô dunes,
Comprendre le bonheur qui m’est échu en partage.
Ainsi, j’écoute, en me penchant aux fleurs
L’écho si léger du lointain murmure
Qui berce en mon âme leurs pâles couleurs.
Les dunes sans lune à moi se mesurent:
On y voit si peu que tout est mon âme
Et, n’est ce pas vous, fleurs devant les eaux
Fleurs givrées du sel de ces sables calmes
Qui peuplez d’azur mon âme aux yeux clos
D’azur et de neige et de la musique née de la mer grise
Entendue finement, fleurs
Entre vos doux entrechoquements,
Echo d’un chant venu des horizons mystiques.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "Par les dunes", written 1914, appears in Collection de Vers et Prose, no. 3, appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in La tourangelle, in 1. Nocturnes, Paris, Eugène Figuière, first published 1914

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2. Cloche d'aube  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Ce petit air de cloche, errant dans le matin,
  a rajeuni mon coeur à la pointe du jour.

Ce petit air de cloche, au coeur frais du matin,
  léger, proche et lointain, a changé mon destin.

Quoi! vais-je après cette heure survivre à mon bonheur,
  ô petit air de cloche qui rajeunis mon coeur?

Si lointain, monotone et perdu, si perdu, petit air,
  petit air au coeur frais de la nue,

tu t'en vas, reviens, sonnes: errant comme l'amour,
  tu trembles sur mon coeur à la pointe du jour.

Quoi! la vie pourrait être monotone et champêtre
  et douce et comme est, proche, ce petit air de cloche?

Douce et simple et lointaine aussi, comme est lointain
  ce petit air qui tremble au coeur frais du matin?

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Fort (1872 - 1960), "Cloche d'aube", written 1913, appears in Ballades françaises et chroniques de France, in La tourangelle, in 5. Chansons pour me consoler d'être heureux, in 4. Complaintes et dits, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Eugène Figuière, first published 1913

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Tolling dawn ", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 249
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