by
Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
L'allée est sans fin
See originalLanguage: French (Français)
L'allée est sans fin
Sous le ciel, divin
D'être pâle ainsi :
Sais-tu qu'on serait
Bien sous le secret
De ces arbres-ci ?
...
Le château, tout blanc
Avec, à son flanc,
Le soleil couché,
Les champs à l'entour...
Oh ! que notre amour
N'est-il là niché !
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,3 of the original text.
Composition:
Set to music by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "L'allée est sans fin", 1892, published 1893, stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons grises, no. 3, Paris, Heugel
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 18
Word count: 62
Language: English after the French (Français)
The avenue is endless
under the sky, divine
by being pale like this:
it would feel really good,
you know, to be under the secret
of these trees.
...
There's the château, all white
with the sunset glow
on its flank,
and fields all around:
oh, if only our love
had its nest there!
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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1,3 of the original text.
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