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by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Le soleil que sa halte
Language: French (Français) 
Le soleil que sa halte 
Surnaturelle exalte 
Aussitôt redescend
Incandescent

je sens comme aux vertèbres 
S'éployer des ténèbres 
Toutes dans un frisson
A l'unisson

Et ma tête surgie 
Solitaire vigie 
Dans les vois triomphaux
De cette faux

Comme rupture franche 
Plutôt refoule ou tranche 
Les anciens désaccords
Avec le corps

Qu'elle de jeûnes ivres
S'opiniâtre à suivre
En quelque bond hagard
Son pur regard

Là-haut où la froidure 
Éternelle n'endure 
Que vous le surpassiez
Tous ô glaciers

Mais selon un baptême
Illuminée au même
Principe qui m'élut
Penche un salut.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Cantique de saint Jean", written 1865-67, appears in Poésies, in Hérodiade, no. 3 [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 Georges Boeuf (b. 1937), "Le prophète", 1998, published 1998. [baritone and piano] [ sung text not verified ]
  • by Rémy-Michel Trotier (b. 1970), "Cantique de Saint-Jean", published 1997 [baritone and flute], Éd. de L'Armateur [ sung text not verified ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-28
Line count: 28
Word count: 90

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