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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Nous sommes venus des grands sables
Language: French (Français)  after the Arabic (العربية) 
Nous sommes venus des grands sables, 
  où naît le Simoun.
[Nos chevaux enfonçait jusqu'aux genoux dans de l'or.]1
Des astres, énormes commes des fruits, 
nous indiquaient, la nuit, notre route.
Nous sommes venus des grands sables, 
  où naissent les lions.

Le jour, nos boucliers étaient des soleils en marche.
La nuit, nos lances étaient [fleuries d'étoiles]2.
Nos compagnons qui sont tombés, nous les avons ensevelis debout, 
la face [vers]3 l'Occident.

Nous sommes venus des grands sables,
où naquirent les Pharaons, 
et leurs mausolées ne nous ont pas fait détourner la tête.

Nous sommes venus des grands sables, 
    où verdoient [des]4 oasis 
plus belles que les Jardins du Paradis,
[et leurs]5 délices ne nous ont pas retenues.

Nous sommes venus des grands sables, 
où l'on entend la voix de Dieu.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Bonhomme 

A. Bonhomme sets stanzas 1-2, 4-5

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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, [Paris] H. Piazza, 1921, pages 10-11.

1 omitted by Bonhomme
2 Bonhomme: "les étoiles"
3 Bonhomme: "tournée vers"
4 Bonhomme: "les"
5 Bonhomme: "leurs"

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le Chant des guerriers", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 8, first published 1921 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist  [text unavailable]
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "Le chant des guerriers", op. 87 (1941), stanzas 1-2,4-5 [ men's chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Henri Claudien , "Chant des Guerriers", published 1929 [ voice and piano ], Paris (61, avenue de Malakoff) : éditions du Magasin musical Pierre Schneider [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean Déré (1886 - 1970), "Le chant des guerriers", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chants arabes, no. 4, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Fourestier (1892 - 1976), "Le Chant des guerriers", published 1931 [ bass or baritone and piano ], Paris : Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2024-10-27
Line count: 20
Word count: 135

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