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by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval

Les Cydalises
 (Sung text for setting by G. Auric)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Où sont nos amoureuses?
Elles sont au tombeau.
Elles sont plus heureuses,
Dans un séjour plus beau !

Elles sont près des anges,
Dans le fond du ciel bleu,
Et chantent les louanges
De la mère de Dieu !

Ô blanche fiancée !
Ô jeune vierge en fleur !
Amante délaissée,
Que flétrit la douleur !

L'éternité profonde
Souriait dans vos yeux :
Flambeaux éteints du monde,
Rallumez-vous aux cieux !

Note for stanza 4 line 2: in Pénavaire's setting, the first voice has "Souriait dans vos yeux" but the 2nd and 3rd voices have "Souriait tristement dans vos yeux".

Composition:

    Set to music by Georges Auric (1899 - 1983), "Les Cydalises", 1925, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Gérard de Nerval, no. 3, Paris, Heugel

Text Authorship:

  • by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval, "Les Cydalises", written 1832-35, appears in Petits Châteaux de Bohême, in Odelettes, first published 1853

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

  • ENG English (David Jonathan Justman) , "The Cydalises", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 64

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