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L'aube blanche dit à mon rêve: "Éveille-toi, le soleil luit". Mon âme écoute et je soulève Un peu mes paupières vers lui. Un rayon de lumière touche La pâle fleur de mes yeux bleus; Une flamme éveille ma bouche, Un souffle éveille mes cheveux. Et mon âme, comme une rose Tremblante, lente, tout le jour, S'éveille à la beauté des choses, Comme mon [cœur]1 à leur amour. Il n'est rien qui ne m'émerveille ! Et je dis en mon rire d'or : Je suis une enfant qui s'éveille Jusqu'au moment où Dieu l'endort.
G. Fauré sets stanzas 1-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 14, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904 [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 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "L'aube blanche", op. 95 no. 5 (1906), published 1906, stanzas 1-3 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from La Chanson d'Ève, no. 5, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Lacombe (1837 - 1927), "L'aube blanche dit à mon rêve", op. 132 no. 6 (1907), published [1909] [ medium voice and piano ], from La chanson d'Ève, no. 6, Éd. F. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "Het witte ochtendgloren", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The white dawn", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der weiße Morgendämmer", copyright © 2015, (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: 16
Word count: 92
The white dawn says to my dream: "Wake up, the sun is shining." My soul listens and I raise my eyelids slightly towards it. A ray of light touches the pale flower of my blue eyes. A flame awakens my mouth, a breeze awakens my hair. And my soul, like a rose, trembling slowly all day through, wakes to the beauty of things, as my soul wakes to their love.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2000 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 14, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 70