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by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900)

Soir païen
 (Sung text for setting by C. Tournemire)
 See base text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
C'est un beau soir, couleur de rose et d'ambre clair
Le temple d'Adonis, en haut du promontoire, 
Découpe sur fond d'or sa colonnade noire,
Et la première étoile a brillé sur la mer...

Pendant qu'un roseau pur module un lent accord
Là-bas, Pan, accoudé sur les monts se soulève
Pour voir danser pieds nus les nymphes sur la grève
Et des vaisseaux d'Asie embaument le vieux port...

Des femmes, épuisant tout bas l'heure incertaine
Causent, l'urne appuyée au bord de la fontaine,
Et des boeufs accouplés délaissent le sillon...

La nuit vient parfumée aux roses de Syrie
Et Diane au croissant clair, ce soir en rêverie,
Au fond des grands bois noirs qu'argente un long rayon

Baise ineffablement les yeux d'Endymion.

Composition:

    Set to music by Charles Tournemire (1870 - 1939), "Soir païen", op. 39 no. 1 (1910), from Tryptique, no. 1

Text Authorship:

  • by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), "Soir païen", written 1901, appears in Le chariot d'or, in 1. Les roses dans la coupe, no. 23, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1901

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

  • ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "A Grecian Evening", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 122

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