Une petite plage où l’on ne rit pas Où personne ne passe : C’est l’amour. L’ombre non plus n’y chasse De bras en bras Un autre jour. Pas de fausses mésanges Mais au loin Une petite île Comme une meule de foin, Et sous l’aile d’un ange Deux anges immobiles.
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Authorship
- by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969), "Amour", appears in Fiançailles pour rire, no. 29, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1939 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Louise-Marie Simon (1903 - 1990), as Claude Arrieu, "Amour", 1944-1945, published 1946 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, no. 3, Éditions Amphion [sung text not yet checked]
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