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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Viens!
 (Sung text for setting by B. Godard)
 Matches base text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Viens! - une flûte invisible
Soupire dans les vergers. -
La chanson la plus paisible
Est la chanson des bergers.

Le vent ride, sous l'yeuse,
Le sombre miroir des eaux. -
La chanson la plus joyeuse
Est la chanson des oiseaux.

Que nul soin ne te tourmente.
Aimons-nous! aimons toujours! -
La chanson la plus charmante
Est la chanson des amours.

Composition:

    Set to music by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Viens!", op. 11 no. 4 [ high voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, appears in Les Contemplations, in 2. Livre deuxiême -- L'âme en fleur, no. 13, first published 1846

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

  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright © 2015


Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 57

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