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by Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859 - 1931)

Les étoffes au mur tendues
Language: French (Français) 
Les étoffes [au mur]1 tendues
S'allument au soleil couchant.
Et ta voix douce est comme un chant
Plein de paroles entendues
Autrefois, au soleil couchant.

Dans les parcs où nous promenâmes,
L'orgueil d'un jeune enchantement,
Dans la croyance du serment
Dont nous avions lié nos âmes.
Ô le suprême enchantement !

Il passe dans tes lourdes tresses
Un parfum subtil et connu ;
Tout à l'heure il m'est revenu
Au cœur de très lentes caresses
De ce parfum cher et connu.

C'était l'odeur des fleurs mourantes.
Roses, lilas, lis et jasmin
Que, parmi les anciens chemins,
Apportaient les brises errantes
Sur ces lilas et ces jasmins.

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Confirmed with L'Année des Poètes. Morceaux choisis. Réunis par Charles Fuster, Édition de l'Année des Poètes, Paris, 1895, pages 248-249.

1 Messager: "aux murs"; further changes may exist not shown above.

Text Authorship:

  • by Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859 - 1931), "Ritournelle" [author's text checked 1 time 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 Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "Brises d'autrefois", first performed 1896 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by André Messager (1853 - 1929), "Ritournelle", 1894? [ voice and piano ], Éd. Henri Tellier [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 105

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