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Le petit jardin

Song Cycle by Jean Lacroix

?. Après trois ans  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Ayant poussé la porte étroite qui chancelle,
Je me suis promené dans le petit jardin
Qu'éclairait doucement le soleil du matin,
Pailletant chaque fleur d'une humide étincelle.

Rien n'a changé. J'ai tout revu : l'humble tonnelle
De vigne folle avec les chaises de rotin...
Le jet d'eau fait toujours son murmure argentin
Et le vieux tremble sa plainte sempiternelle.

Les roses comme avant palpitent ; comme avant,
Les grands lys orgueilleux se balancent au vent.
Chaque alouette qui va et vient m'est connue.

Même j'ai retrouvé debout la Velléda
Dont le plâtre s'écaille au bout de l'avenue,
— Grêle, parmi l'odeur fade du réséda.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Après trois ans", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 1. Melancholia, no. 3, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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

  • ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "After Three Years", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 1. Melancholia, no. 3
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dopo tre anni", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, in Melancholia, pages 17-18.


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