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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Pensée des morts
 (Sung text for setting by P. Dukas)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Voilà les feuilles sans sève
Qui tombent sur le gazon,
Voilà le vent qui s'élève
Et gémit dans le vallon,
Voilà l'errante hirondelle. 
Qui rase du bout de l'aile : 
L'eau dormante des marais,
Voilà l'enfant des chaumières
Qui glane sur les bruyères
Le bois tombé des forêts.

 ... 

La brebis sur la colline
Ne trouve plus le gazon,
Son agneau laisse aux épines
Les débris de sa toison,
La flûte aux accords champêtres
Ne réjouit plus les hêtres
Des airs de joie ou d'amour,
Toute herbe aux champs est glanée:
Ainsi finit une année,
Ainsi finissent nos jours !

Composition:

    Set to music by Paul Abraham Dukas (1865 - 1935), "Pensée des morts", 1886, stanzas 1,4 [ satb chorus, tenor solo, and orchestra ], confirmed with Palazzetto Bru Zane's recording in their Collection Prix de Rome

Text Authorship:

  • by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), "Pensée des morts", appears in Harmonies poétiques et religieuses

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