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by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)

Pour Virginie
 (Sung text for setting by M. Jaubert)
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Language: French (Français) 
C'est aujourd'hui la fête de Virginie...
Tu étais nue sous ta robe de mousseline.
Tu mangeais de gros fruits au goût de Mozambique
et la mer salée couvrait les crabes creux et gris.

Ta chair était pareille à celle des cocos.
Les marchands te portaient des pagnes couleur d'air
et des mouchoirs de tête à carreaux jaune-clair.
Labourdonnais signait des papiers d'amiraux.

Tu es morte et tu vis, ô ma petite amie,
amie de Bernardin, ce vieux sculpteur de cannes,
et tu mourus en robe blanche, une médaille
à ton cou pur, dans la Passe de l'Agonie.

Composition:

    Set to music by Maurice Jaubert (1900 - 1940), "Pour Virginie", from Trois Sérénades, no. 2

Text Authorship:

  • by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), no title, appears in De l'Angélus de l'aube à l'Angélus du soir , Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1898

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

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 98

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