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by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)

Rêverie
 (Sung text for setting by C. Debussy)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Le zéphir à la douce haleine
Entr'ouvre la rose des bois,
Et sur les monts et dans la plaine,
Il féconde tout à la fois.

Le lys et la rouge verveine
S'échappent fleuris de ses doigts.
Tout s'enivre à sa coupe pleine
Et chacun tréssaille à sa voix.

Mais il est une frêle plante
Qui se retire et fuit tremblante.
Le baiser qui va la meurtrir.

Or, je sais des âmes plaintives
Qui sont comme les sensitives,
Et que le bonheur fait mourir.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Rêverie", L. 3/(8) (1880) [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), no title, written 1839, appears in Les Cariatides, in Amours d'Élise - Feuillets détachés, no. 5

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

  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Daydream", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 83

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