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by François Coppée (1842 - 1908)

Chanson d'avril
 (Sung text for setting by C. Gounod)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
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Zanetto, chantant dans le lointain
Mignonne, voici l'Avril !
Le soleil revient d'exil ;
Tous le nids sont en querelles;
L'air est pur, le ciel léger,
Et partout on voit neiger
Des plumes de tourterelles.

Prends, pour que nous nous trouvions,
Le chemin des papillons
Et des frêles demoiselles;
Viens, car tu sais qu'on t'attend
Sous le bois, près de l'étang
Où vont boire les gazelles !

Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Chanson d'avril", subtitle: "Sérénade du passant", CG 357 (1872), published [1872] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Henry Lemoine, also set in English

Text Authorship:

  • by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), no title, appears in Le Passant, comédie en un acte, en vers, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 64

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