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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

L'échelonnement des haies
 (Sung text for setting by C. Debussy)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
L'échelonnement des haies
Moutonne à l'infini, mer
Claire dans le brouillard clair,
Qui sent bon les jeunes baies.

Des arbres et des moulins
Sont légers sur le vert tendre,
Où vient s'ébattre et s'étendre
L'agilité des poulains.

Dans ce vague d'un Dimanche,
Voici se jouer aussi
De grandes brebis,
Aussi douces que leur laine blanche.

Tout à l'heure déferlait
L'onde roulée en volutes,
De cloches comme des flûtes
Dans le ciel comme du lait.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "L'échelonnement des haies", L. 85/(81) no. 3 (1891), published 1892 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Fromont

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, written 1875?, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 13, first published 1880

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Row upon row of hedges", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Christiane Garoux

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 74

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