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by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941)

Vierges mortes (L'âme nue)
 (Sung text for setting by P. de Maurice)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  GER
Oeillets blancs, lilas blancs et violettes blanches:
Et le char Sépulcral s'en va vers les caveaux,
Sinistre et chaste, au pas rythmique des chevaux
Qui bercent les grands draps déployés sur leurs hanches..

O vierges, d'autres mai fleuriront les pervenches
Les baisers écloront dans les avril nouveaux
Et la brise des juin grisera les cerveaux!
Mais vos corps sans désirs dormiront sous les planches,

Toujours! Et c'est fini sans être commencé...
Votre avenir d'hier a mille ans de passé:
Vos coeurs immaculés sont morts avant de naître!
Oeillets blancs, lilas blancs et violettes blanches.

Composition:

    Set to music by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "Vierges mortes (L'âme nue)", op. 14 (1902), published 1915 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], Genève, Éd. Ad. Henn

Text Authorship:

  • by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "Vierges mortes", written 1885, appears in L'Âme nue, in 1. La Vie extérieure, in 2. Les Cultes, no. 28, Paris, Éd. Fasquelle, first published 1885

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Gebrochene Blüten", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2005-01-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 94

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