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by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas

Le Rhin
Language: French (Français) 
Aux galets le flot se brise
Sous la lune blanche et grise,
O la triste cantilène
Que la bise dans la plaine !
-- Elfes couronnés de jonc,
Viendrez-vous danser en rond ?

Hou ! hou ! le héron ricane
Pour faire peur à la cane.
Trap! trap ! le sorcier galope
Sur le bouc et la varlope.
-- Elfes couronnés de jonc,
Viendrez-vous danser en rond ?

Au caveau rongé de mousse
L'empereur à barbe rousse,
Le front dans les mains, sommeille ;
Le nain guette la corneille.
-- Elfes couronnés de jonc,
Viendrez-vous danser en rond ?

Mais déjà l'aurore émerge,
De rose teignant la berge,
Et s'envolent les chimères
Comme un essaim d'éphémères.
-- Elfes couronnés de jonc,
Vous ne dansez plus en rond!

Text Authorship:

  • by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas, "Le Rhin", written 1886, appears in Les cantilènes, in 2. Interlude, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Léon Vanier, first published 1886 [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 Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "Le Rhin", 1891, published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart Lerolle (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean-Marc Déhan (1929 - 2009), "Le Rhin", 1979 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, 1ère série - 9 Esquisses, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Francès (1919 - 2012), "Le Rhin", published 2002 [ high voice and piano ], from Paysages musicaux, no. 4, Paris, Éditions Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-09-28
Line count: 24
Word count: 115

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