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Quel son lamentable et sauvage Va sonner l'heure de l'adieu! La mer roule sur le rivage, Moqueuse, et se souciant peu Que ce soit l'heure de l'adieu. Des oiseaux passent, l'aile ouverte, Sur l'abîme presque joyeux ; [Le soleil dore la mer verte]1, -- Et je saigne, silencieux, En regardant briller les cieux. Je me sens déjà seul et vide, Comme un esquif abandonné Flottant sur un fleuve livide, Qui traverserait, entraîné, Plus d'un grand pays étonné. Je vois que le moment s'approche ; Et j'admire que le destin, Insensible comme la roche, Au ciel, gris et bleu, de satin Fasse fleurir un tel matin.
E. Chausson sets stanzas 1-2
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Chausson: "Au grand soleil la mer est verte"
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- by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 47, first published 1876 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La fleur des eaux", op. 19 no. 1 (1882), published 1917, first performed 1893, orchestrated 1893 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, no. 1, Rouart & Lerolle
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- ENG English (Korin Kormick) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 20
Word count: 104
Wie kläglich und wie grausam schlägt uns die Abschiedsstunde! Das Meer rollt auf den Strand und macht sich lustig; es schert sich wenig um das Scheiden. Mit weiten Schwingen ziehen Vögel hin über des Meeres Tiefen, fast vergnügt. Das Meer ist grün im hellen Licht der Sonne, Ich blute still und seh’ den Himmel schimmern. [...] [...]
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- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 47, first published 1876
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-05
Line count: 12
Word count: 57