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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Jamais elle ne raille
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
    Jamais elle ne raille,
    Étant un calme esprit ;
    Mais toujours elle rit. -
Voici des brins de mousse avec des brins de paille ;
    Fauvette des roseaux,
    Fais ton nid sur les eaux.

    Quand sous la clarté [douce]1
    Qui sort de tes beaux yeux,
    On passe, on est [joyeux]2. -
Voici des brins de paille avec des brins de mousse ;
    Martinet de l'azur,
    Fais ton nid dans mon mur.

    Dans l'aube avril se mire,
    Et les rameaux fleuris
    Sont pleins de petits cris. -
Voici de son regard, voici de son sourire,
    Amour, ô doux vainqueur,
    Fais ton nid dans mon cœur.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Lecocq 

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Confirmed with Victor Hugo, Les quatre vents de l'esprit, Paris, Émile Testard, 1889, pages 353-354.

1 Lecocq: "pouce"
2 Lecocq: "heureux"

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Chanson d'autrefois", written 1855, appears in Les quatre vents de l'esprit, in 3. Le Livre Lyrique -- La Destinée, no. 13a, first published 1908 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Chanson d'autrefois", <<1917 [ voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 4e série, no. 72, Paris, Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840 - 1910), "Chanson", published [1885] [ voice and piano ], from Six (Nouvelles) Mélodies, no. 3, Éd. Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Alexandre) Charles Lecocq (1832 - 1918), "Les trois nids", published c1910 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons d'Amour, no. 19, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Xavier Perreau (1856 - 1939), "Chanson d'autrefois", published 1894 [ tenor and piano ], from Cinq mélodies avec accompagnement de piano, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Librairie de l'Art indépendant [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Chanson d'autrefois", VWV 1129 (1892) [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies suivies d'un duo pour 2 voix égales, no. 3, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2013-10-31
Line count: 18
Word count: 102

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