Enfant, si tu dors,
Les anges alors
T'apporteront mille choses:
Des petits oiseaux,
Des petits agneaux,
Des lys, des lilas, et des roses,

Puis, des lapins blancs,
Avec des rubans
Pour traîner ta voiture;
Ils te donneront
Tout ce qu'ils auront,
Et des baisers, je t'assure!

Enfant, dors à mes accords,
Dors, mon petit enfant,
Dors!  Dors, petit enfant!

J'entend l'éléphant 
du grand Mogol, il s'avance,
Portant sur son dos
Deux palanquins clos
Que lentement il balance!

Dans les palanquins sont des lapins blancs
Qui vont traîner ta voiture . . . 
Tu n'entends pas mon murmure,
Enfant, dors à mes accords,
Dors, mon petit enfant, dors!

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Note: Radoux uses the spelling "lis" instead of "lys"

Text Authorship:

• by Auguste de Châtillon (1808 - 1881), "Berceuse", written 1855?, appears in A la grand' Pinte, appears in Chant et poésie, Paris, Éd. E. Dentu, first published 1855 [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 René Chansarel (1864 - 1945), "Berceuse", <<1903 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. E. Demets [sung text not yet checked]
• by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Berceuse", <<1871 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Durand, Schoenewerk et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Jean Baptiste Grisart (1837 - 1904), "Berceuse", <<1885 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937), "Enfant, si tu dors", published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], New York, Carl Fischer, also set in English [sung text not yet checked]
• by Edmond Missa (1861 - 1910), "Berceuse", published [1896] [ chorus and piano ], Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jean-Théodore Radoux (1835 - 1911), "Berceuse", published 187-? [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 1er recueil, no. 20, Paris, Louis Gregh [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gustave Sinet , "Berceuse", <<1861 [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Berceuse", VWV 1119, published 1884, from Six mélodies. Deuxième série, no. 2, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Harriet Betty Boas ; composed by Henry Kimball Hadley.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "Cradle song", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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