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by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969)

Scherzo impromptu
Language: French (Français) 
Promesse au cœur de vos sourires,	
Votre nez bouge: vous mentez.	
Mais le mensonge est vérité	
Sous les astres de votre empire.	
La vérité, témérité,	
Aux puits des miroirs perd la face,	
Surgissez à ma fleur de vos glaces,	
Sortez de vos miroirs hantés.	
Vers moi vous avancez de face,	
Vous avancez, battant des cils...	
Et vous éloignez de profil:	
C'est de profil que le temps passe.	
Et pas à pas et fil à fil	
Montrant et cachant vos visages, 
Vous allez de bras en ombrages 
Depuis la Seine jusqu'au Nil.	
Et vous regardez les nuages	
Qui sont l'image de vos cœurs	
Changeant de forme et de couleur	
Et se dissipant en voyage.	
La belle et moi, le bel émoi,	
L'un est tout près, l'autre est lointaine,	
Miroirs, fondez-vous en fontaine.	
Ah! bel émoi, donnez-la moi!	

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Text Authorship:

  • by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969), written 1948, appears in Mouvements du cœur [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 Jean Françaix (1912 - 1997), "Scherzo impromptu", 1949, published 1949, first performed 1949 [ low voice and piano ], from Mouvements du cœur: Suite de 7 mélodies en hommage à Chopin, no. 4, Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2016-04-19
Line count: 24
Word count: 136

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