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by Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532 - 1573)

Comme un qui s'est perdu
 (Sung text for setting by J. Leguerney)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Comme un qui s'est perdu dans la forest profonde
Loing de chemin, d'orée et d'adresse, et de gens :
Comme un qui en la mer grosse d'horribles vens,
Se voit presque engloutir des grans vagues de l'onde :

Comme un qui erre aux champs, lors que la nuict au monde
Ravit toute clarté, j'avois perdu long temps
Voye, route, et lumiere, et presque avec le sens,
Perdu long temps l'object, où plus mon heur se fonde.

Mais quand on voit, ayans ces maux fini leur tour,
Aux bois, en mer, aux champs, le bout, le port, le jour,
Ce bien present plus grand que son mal on vient croire.

Moy donc qui ay tout tel en vostre absence esté,
J'oublie, en revoyant vostre heureuse clarté,
Forest, tourmente, et nuict, longue, orageuse, et noire.

Composition:

    Set to music by Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Comme un qui s'est perdu", 1945, published 1986, first performed 1985 [ dramatic soprano or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Poèmes de la Pléiade, Vol. IV, no. 3, Max Eschig

Text Authorship:

  • by Étienne Jodelle, seigneur de Limodin (1532 - 1573), no title, appears in Les Amours et Autres Poésies d'Estienne Jodelle, Parisien, in Sonnets, no. 30, first published 1574

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Like someone lost", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-06-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 131

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