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Mon enfant, ma sœur,
Songe à la douceur
D'aller là-bas vivre ensemble ;
-- Aimer à loisir,
Aimer et mourir
Au pays qui te ressemble !
Les soleils mouillés
De ces ciels brouillés
Pour mon esprit ont les charmes
Si mystérieux
De tes traîtres yeux
Brillant à travers leurs larmes.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
...
Vois sur ces canaux
Dormir ces vaisseaux
Dont l'humeur est vagabonde ;
C'est pour assouvir
Ton moindre désir
Qu'ils viennent du bout du monde.
-- Les soleils couchants
Revêtent les champs,
Les canaux, la ville entière,
D'hyacinthe et d'or ;
-- Le monde s'endort
Dans une chaude lumière.
Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,5-6 of the original text.
First published in Revue des Deux Mondes, seconde série de la nouvelle période, tome dixième, 1855. Also appears in Les Fleurs du mal as number 49 in the 1857 edition and 53 or 54 in subsequent editions.
Composition:
- Set to music by Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933), "L'invitation au Voyage", 1870, published 1894, orchestrated 1892, stanzas 1-2,5-6 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie
Score: IMSLP [external link]
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "L'Invitation au Voyage", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 53, Paris, Bureau de la Revue des Deux Mondes, first published 1855
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Vyzvání na cestu"
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , "De Uitnodiging voor de Reis", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Invitation to the voyage", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "Invitation to a Journey", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909
- GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , "Einladung zur Reise", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Invito al viaggio", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , title 1: "La invitación al viaje", title 2: "La invitación al viaje", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Nicolas Gounin [Guest Editor] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 164
¿Mi niña, mi hermana,
piensa en la dulzura
de ir allá a vivir juntos!
¿Amar a placer,
amar y morir
En un país como tú!
Los soles mojados
de esos cielos cubiertos
para mi espíritu tienen los encantos
tan misteriosos
de tus traidores ojos,
Brillando a través de las lágrimas.
Allí, todo es orden y belleza,
Lujo, calma y voluptuosidad.
...
Mira en los canales
dormir los navíos
cuyo humor es vagabundo;
para colmar
tu menor deseo
vienen desde el fin del mundo.
Los soles ponientes
revisten los campos,
los canales, la ciudad entera,
de jacintos y de oro;
el mundo se adormece
bajo una cálida luz.
Allí, todo es orden y belleza,
Lujo, calma y voluptuosidad.
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2,5-6 of the original text.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Spanish (Español) copyright © 2008 by Juan Henríquez Concepción, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "L'Invitation au Voyage", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 53, Paris, Bureau de la Revue des Deux Mondes, first published 1855
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Word count: 169