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by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)

Le vase brisé
 (Sung text for setting by E. Tinel)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG ENG
Le vase où meurt cette vervaine
D'un coup d'éventail fut fêlé ;
Le coup dut l'effleurer à peine,
Aucun bruit ne l'a révélé.

Mais la légère meurtrissure,
Mordant le cristal chaque jour,
D'une marche invisible et sûre
En a fait lentement le tour.

Son eau fraîche a fui goutte à goutte,
Le suc des fleurs s'est épuisé ;
Personne encore ne s'en doute,
N'y touchez pas, il est brisé.

Souvent aussi la main qu'on aime
Effleurant le coeur, le meurtrit ;
Puis le cœur se fend de lui-même,
La fleur de son amour périt ;

Toujours intact aux yeux du monde,
Il sent croître et pleurer tout bas
Sa blessure fine et profonde :
Il est brisé, n'y touchez pas.

Composition:

    Set to music by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Le vase brisé", op. 28 no. 1 (1884), published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from Mélancolie. Deux pièces pour chant et piano, no. 1, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel

Text Authorship:

  • by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), title 1: "Le vase brisé", title 2: "Le vase brisé", appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in La Vie intérieure, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Karel Čapek) , "Puklá váza"
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Karel Čapek) , "Puklá váza"
  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "The broken vase", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , "The broken vase", 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: 20
Word count: 115

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