Je veux que si je dis ces simples mots: «la rose»,
Sans que j'ajoute rien au nom de cette fleur,
Vous la ressentiez toute ainsi qu'une âme close
Nous livre ses vertus par sa seule pudeur.

Note: in Papineau-Couture's score, part of the word "âme" is missing.

Text Authorship:

• by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Discrétion", written 1923-25, appears in Les livres des quatrains, in 4. Quatrième livre, no. 59 [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 Jean Papineau-Couture (1916 - 2000), "Discrétion", 1947, copyright © 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains, no. 7, Montréal, Éd. Doberman-Yppan [sung text checked 1 time]

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