Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été
Le grand soleil, complice de ma joie,
[Fera]1, parmi le satin et la soie,
Plus belle encor votre chère beauté ;

Le ciel tout bleu, comme une haute tente,
Frissonnera somptueux à longs plis
Sur nos deux fronts [heureux]2 qu'auront pâlis
L'émotion du bonheur et l'attente ;

Et quand le soir viendra, l'air sera doux
Qui se jouera, caressant, dans vos voiles,
Et les regards paisibles des étoiles
Bienveillamment souriront aux époux.

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¹ Sokolov: "Sera"
² omitted by Fauré.

Text Authorship:

• by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 19, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870 [author's text not yet checked 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 Tony Aubin (1907 - 1981), "Par un clair jour d'été", 1932, published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from Six poèmes de Verlaine, no. 2, Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Épithalame", 1902, published 1902 [ high voice and orchestra or piano ], Paris, Mergault [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Cornet (d. 1946), as Charles Tenroc, "Par un clair jour d'été", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lucien Darras (b. 1922), "Jour d'été", published 1945 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rousselot [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", op. 61 no. 7, published 1892-3 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 7, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jacques de Fontenailles (1888 - 1914), "Par un clair jour d'été", 1913, published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from 14 Mélodies, no. 3, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eduardo García Mansilla (1871 - 1930), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été" [ voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes, no. 1, Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
• by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", 1920, published 1920 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (1868 - 1928), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", published 1903 [ reciter and piano ], from Two Verlaine Moods, no. 1, Newton Center (Massachusetts), Wa-Wan Press [sung text not yet checked]
• by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Tous deux", 1887-90, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons grises, no. 2, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Rodolphe-Adolphe-Joseph Herrmann (1875 - 1964), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 16, Paris, Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies de Paul Verlaine, no. 2, Paris, Demets [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jean-Henri Maillot , "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Tous deux", published 1916 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies et poèmes, no. 12, London, Chester [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour", 1936, published 1936 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 5, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
• by Cemal Resit Rey (1904 - 1985), as Djemal Rechid, "Donc ce sera par un clair jour d'été" [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. E. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
• by Simone Saivre , "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pierre Salet (1875 - 1936), "La bonne chanson", published 1902 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Prioré [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Jour d'été", op. 32 (Cinq Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 4, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff  [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", published 1923 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, recueil 2, no. 3, Paris, Édition Francis Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georges Taconet (1889 - 1962), "Tous deux", op. 50 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by François Luc Joseph Thomé (1850 - 1909), as Francis Thomé, "Mélodie", 1905?, published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été", op. 11 no. 2, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies sur Gautier et Verlaine, no. 2, Paris, Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lucien Wurmser (1877 - 1967), "Attente", published 1899 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons tristes, no. 5, Paris, Poulalion [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Franz Evers (1871 - 1947) , "Und es wird kommen ein Sommertag..." ; composed by Willy Czernik, Franz Dannehl, Artur Immisch, Georg Trexler.
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• Also set in Hungarian (Magyar), a translation by Lőrinc Szabó (1900 - 1957) ; composed by József Soproni.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Laura L. Nagle) , "And so, it shall be on a bright summer's day", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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