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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Le golfe de Baya
 (Sung text for setting by C. Saint-Saëns)
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Language: French (Français) 
        Vois-tu comme le flot paisible
        Sur le rivage vient mourir ?
        Vois-tu le volage zéphyr
        Rider, d'une haleine insensible,
        L'onde qu'il aime à parcourir ?
        Montons sur ma barque légère
        Que ma main guide sans efforts,
        Et de ce golfe solitaire
        Rasons timidement les bords.

 ... 

        Mais déjà l'ombre plus épaisse
        Tombe et brunit les vastes mers ;
        Le bord s'efface, le bruit cesse,
        Le Silence occupe les airs.
        C'est l'heure où la Mélancolie
        S'assied pensive et recueillie
        Aux bords silencieux des mers,
        Et, méditant sur les ruines,
        Contemple au penchant des collines
        Ce palais, ces temples déserts.

Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Le golfe de Baya", 1847, stanzas 1,5 [ high voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), title 1: "Le golfe de Baïa", title 2: "Le golfe de Baya près de Naples", written 1813, appears in Méditations poétiques

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 84
Word count: 499

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