Inscription on the sand | Integral, with her robe and flowers

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by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907)

Translation © by David Arkell

Inscription sur le sable

(Sung text for setting by G. Fauré)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG GER

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:

Gabriel Fauré

Le jardin clos

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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Inscription on the sand

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Fauré)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

Integral, with her robe and flowers,
She, here, became dust again,
And her soul, borne away elsewhere,
Was reborn in song of light.

But a light, delicate bond
Broken gently in death
Encircled her weak temples
With everlasting diamonds.

As a sign of her in this place,
Alone, among the white sand,
The eternal stones still trace
The image of her brow.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-3 of the original text.

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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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