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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Nocturne à deux voix
Language: French (Français) 
Je veux dans l'inconstance
Passer mes premiers ans 
Et tiens que c'est prudence
De n'aimer pas longtemps.

J'aurais été fidèle, 
Fidèle á mes amours,
Mais où trouver la belle 
Qui puisse aimer toujours.

A gentille maîtresse
J'avais donné ma foi; 
Sa bouche enchanteresse
M'avait dit: tout á toi.

Je la croyais fidèle, 
Fidéle á ses amours, etc.

Cependant je soupire
Et mon coeur agité 
Vers l'ingrate Zelmire
Sans cesse est reporté.

Ah! je serai fidèle, 
Fidèle á mes amours, etc.

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869), "Nocturne à deux voix", 1818, published 1830. [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 80

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