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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

La mer ! partout la mer ! des flots, des...
Language: French (Français) 
La mer ! partout la mer ! des flots, des flots encor.
L'oiseau fatigue en vain son inégal essor.
Ici les flots, là-bas les ondes ;
Toujours des flots sans fin par des flots repoussés ; 
L'œil ne voit que des flots dans l'abîme entassés 
Rouler sous les vagues profondes.

Parfois de grands poissons, à fleur d'eau voyageant, 
Font reluire au soleil leurs nageoires d'argent,
Ou l'azur de leurs larges queues.
La mer semble un troupeau secouant sa toison:
Mais un cercle d'airain ferme au loin l'horizon ;
Le ciel bleu se mêle aux eaux bleues.

– Faut-il sécher ces mers ? dit le nuage en feu. 
– Non ! – Il reprit son vol sous le souffle de Dieu.

C. Bordes sets stanza 1

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Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1828, appears in Les Orientales, in 1. Le feu du ciel, no. 2 [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 Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Pleine mer", published 1921?, stanza 1 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-31
Line count: 14
Word count: 113

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