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by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)

Fut‑il jamais douceur de cœur pareille
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
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Fut-il jamais douceur de cœur pareille
À voir Manon dans mes bras sommeiller ?
Son front coquet parfume l'oreiller ;
Dans son beau sein, j'entends son cœur qui veille.
Un songe passe, et s'en vient l'égayer.

Ainsi s'endort [la]1 fleur d'églantier
Dans son calice enfermant une abeille.
Moi, je la berce ; un plus charmant métier,
       Fut-il jamais ?

Mais le jour vient, et l'aurore vermeille
Effeuille au vent son [bouquet printanier]2.
Le peigne en main et la perle à l'oreille,
À son miroir Manon [court]3 m'oublier.
Hélas ! l'amour sans lendemain ni veille
       Fut-il jamais ?

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Debussy •   Guimet 

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Confirmed with Alfred de Musset, Poésies nouvelles (1836-1852), Charpentier, 1857, page 210.

1 Guimet: "une"
2 Debussy: "printemps virginal"
3 Debussy: "va"

Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Rondeau", written 1842, appears in Poésies nouvelles [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Rondeau: "Fut-il jamais"", L. 17/(30) (1882) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Gaston Doin (1878 - 1962), "Le rondeau à Manon", published 1950 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies romantiques, no. 2, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul Fiévet (1892 - 1980), "Fut-il jamais", published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Buffet-Crampon & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Émile Guimet (1836 - 1918), "Fut-il jamais" [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons d'amour, no. 24, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ernest-Louis-Victor-Jules L'Épine (1826 - 1893), "Rondeau", published [1868] [ high voice and piano ], from 22 Scènes et Chansons, no. 13, Éd. G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Rondo: Was there ever such sweetness of heart", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Low [Guest Editor] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-04-03
Line count: 15
Word count: 95

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