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by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895)

Le Nil
 (Sung text for setting by X. Leroux)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
 ... 

Les eaux du Nil, toutes pâles, s'écoulent,
  Sous les étoiles de la nuit.
Des sphinx, aux bords, sur deux rangs se déroulent.
  Au milieu, notre barque fuit.

Le bien-aimé, s'accoudant sur la proue,
  Laisse errer sur moi son œil doux ;
Moi, renversant la tête, je secoue 
  Mes cheveux d'or sur ses genoux.

Et les grands sphinx, dans la plaine infinie,
  Nous regardant passer près d'eux,
Confusément versent une harmonie
  Qui tombe en amour sur nous deux.

 ... 

Composition:

    Set to music by Xavier Henri Napoleon Leroux (1863 - 1919), "Le Nil", published c1886, stanzas 2-4 [ high voice and piano ], from La Solitaire, mélodies Persanes de Armand Renaud, no. 1, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann

Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895), "Sur le Nil", appears in Les nuits persanes, in 5. La solitaire, Paris, Alphonese 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: 24
Word count: 150

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