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Deux Romances

Song Cycle by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918)

Translated to:

Italian (Italiano) — Due romances
German (Deutsch) — Zwei Romanzen
English — Two Romances
German (Deutsch) — Zwei Romanzen (Bertram Kottmann)

1. Les Cloches
 (Sung text)

Language: French (Français) 
Les feuilles s'ouvraient sur le bord des branches
    Délicatement.
Les cloches tintaient, légères et franches,
    Dans le ciel clément.

Rythmique et fervent comme une antienne,
    Ce lointain appel
Me remémorait la blancheur chrétienne
    Des fleurs de l'autel.

Ces cloches parlaient d'heureuses années,
    Et, dans le grand bois,
Semblaient reverdir les feuilles fanées,
    Des jours d'autrefois.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Romance", appears in Les Aveux, in Dilettantisme

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

  • ENG English (Grant A. Lewis) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Die Glocken", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

2. Romance
 (Sung text)

Language: French (Français) 
L'âme évaporée et souffrante,
L'âme douce, l'âme odorante
Des lys divins que j'ai cueillis
Dans le jardin de ta pensée,
Où donc les vents l'ont-ils chassée,
Cette âme adorable des lys?

N'est-il plus un parfum qui reste
De la suavité céleste
Des jours où tu m'enveloppais
D'une vapeur surnaturelle,
Faite d'espoir, d'amour fidèle,
De béatitude et de paix?...

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Romance", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 32, Paris Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Romance", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Romanze", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 113
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