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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Le lever de la lune
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ainsi qu'une jeune beauté
Silencieuse et solitaire,
Des flancs du nuage argenté
La lune sort avec mystère.
Fille aimable du ciel, à pas lents et sans bruit,
Tu glisses dans les airs où' brille ta couronne;
Et ton passage s'environne
Du cortège pompeux des soleils de la nuit.
Que fais-tu loin de nous
Quand l'aube blanchissante
Efface à nos yeux, à nos yeux attristés
Ton sourire charmant et tes molles clartés?
Vas-tu comme Ossian, plaintive, gémissante,
Dans l'asile de la douleur
Ensevelir ta beauté languissante?
Fille aimable du ciel, connais-tu le malheur?
Maintenant revês-tu de toute sa lumière
Ton char voluptueux roule au dessus des monts;
Prolonge s'il se peut le cours de sa carrière
Et verse sur la mer tes paisibles rayons.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, an imitation of Ossian  [author's text not yet checked 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 Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Le lever de la lune", 1855, published 1865 [medium voice and piano], Éd. Richault [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "The rising of the moon", copyright © 1997, (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: 20
Word count: 123

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