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by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909)

Dans la forêt de Septembre
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Ramure aux rumeurs amollies,
Troncs sonores que l'âge creuse,
L'antique forêt douloureuse
S'accorde à nos mélancolies.

Ô sapins agriffés au gouffre,
Nids déserts [des]1 branches brisées,
Halliers brûlés, fleurs sans rosées,
Vous savez bien comme l'on souffre !

Et lorsque l'homme, passant blême,
Pleure dans le bois solitaire,
Des plaintes d'ombre et de mystère
L'accueillent en pleurant de même.

Bonne forêt ! promesse ouverte
De l'exil que la vie implore !
Je viens d'un pas [vivace]2 encore 
Dans ta profondeur encor verte,

Mais, d'un fin bouleau de la sente,
Une feuille, un peu rousse, frôle
Ma tête, et tremble à mon épaule ;
C'est que la forêt vieillissante,

Sachant l'hiver, où tout avorte,
Déjà proche en moi comme en elle,
Me fait l'aumône fraternelle
De sa première feuille morte.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Fauré 

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Confirmed with the newspaper Le Figaro, September 21, 1902.

1 Fauré: "aux"
2 Fauré: "alerte"

Text Authorship:

  • by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909), "Dans la forêt de Septembre", first published 1902 [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 Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Dans la forêt de Septembre", 2011 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Dans la forêt de Septembre", op. 85 no. 1 (1902), published 1902 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "A la forest de setembre", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "In the forest in September", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , François Le Roux [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 125

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