by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)
Language: French (Français)
Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent,
Tous les chants des oiseaux sont courts,
Je rêve aux étés qui demeurent
Toujours...
Ici-bas les lèvres effleurent
Sans rien laisser de leur velours,
Je rêve aux baisers qui demeurent
Toujours...
Ici-bas, tous les hommes pleurent
Leurs amitiés ou leurs amours;
Je rêve aux couples qui demeurent
Toujours...
Note: quoted in Jules Lemaître's "Vers pour être chantés".
Composition:
- Set to music by Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936), "Soupir", P. 89 no. 6, published 1909, from Sei melodie, no. 6
Text Authorship:
- by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), "Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent", 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):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Zde"
- ENG English [singable] (Samuel Byrne) , "In this world"
- GER German (Deutsch) (Martin Stock) , "Hier auf Erden", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ramona Gabriela Peter) , "Quaggiù", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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