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Toute, avec sa robe et ses fleurs,
Elle, ici, redevint poussière,
Et son âme emportée ailleurs
Renaquit en chant de lumière.
Mais un léger lien fragile
Dans la mort brisé doucement,
Encerclait ses tempes débiles
D'impérissables diamants.
En signe d'elle, à cette place,
Seules, parmi le sable blond,
Les pierres éternelles tracent
Encor l'image de son front.
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.
Confirmed with van Lerberghe, Charles, Entrevisions, suivi de Poèmes posthumes, Paris, G. Crès, 1923, pages 26-27.Composition:
- Set to music by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Inscription sur le sable", op. 106 no. 8 (1914), published 1915, stanzas 1-3 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le jardin clos, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "Inscription sur le sable", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 10, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Inscripció a la sorra", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "Letters in het zand", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Arkell) , "Inscription on the sand", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "In Sand geschrieben", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Didier Pelat
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Hier kehrte sie zum Staube wieder,
und mit ihr Blüten und Gewand,
und Ihre Seel’, woanders hingetragen,
ward neu geboren aus des Lichtes Lied.
Aber ein leichtes, zartes Band,
im Tode sanft gebrochen,
umschließt die eingefallnen Schläfen
mit unvergänglich’ Diamant.
An diesem Ort, allein im weißen Sand,
ist es ihr letztes Zeichen:
die ew’gen Steine malen immer noch
das Abbild ihrer Stirn.
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.
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- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "Inscription sur le sable", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 10, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
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This text was added to the website: 2015-02-14
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Word count: 104