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by Émile Verhaeren (1855 - 1916)

Ta bonté
 (Sung text for setting by N. Boulanger)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Chaque heure, où je songe à ta bonté
Si simplement profonde,
Je me confonds en prières vers toi.

Je suis venu si tard
Vers la douceur de ton regard,
Et de si loin vers tes deux mains tendues,
Tranquillement, par à travers les étendues!

J'avais en moi tant de rouille tenace
Qui me rongeait à dents rapaces,
La confiance
J'étais si lourd, j'étais si las
J'étais si vieux de méfiance,
J'étais si lourd, j'étais si las
Du vain chemin de tous mes pas.

Je méritais si peu la merveilleuse joie
De voir tes pieds illuminer ma voie,
Que j'en reste tremblant encore et presque en pleurs
Et humble à tout jamais, en face du bonheur.

Composition:

    Set to music by Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979) and by Stéphane Raoul Pugno (1852 - 1914), "Ta bonté", 1909, published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from Les heures claires, no. 6, Paris, Éd. "Au Ménestrel" Heugel

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Verhaeren (1855 - 1916), no title, written 1896, appears in Les heures claires, no. 5, Bruxelles, Éd. Edmond Deman, first published 1896

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-11-01
Line count: 18
Word count: 115

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