Une phalène rôde et glisse veloutée Dans l'odorant silence où meurent une à une Les suprêmes rumeurs de cette heure enchantée ; Les jardins de la nuit éclosent sous la lune. Au loin s'éplore un son de cor, dans les ramures ; C'est une âme, on dirait, qui rêve sous les chênes. Les notes, tour à tour lointaines ou prochaines, Semblent de grands aveux qui meurent en murmures. [...]
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Confirmed with La Maison de l'Enfance, Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1900, incomplete text.
Text Authorship:
- by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960), "Cor au crépuscule", written 1897?, appears in La Maison de l'Enfance, in 6. Soupirs, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Calmann Lévy, first published 1897 [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 Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857 - 1934), "Cor au crépuscule", published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les chants de la vie, no. 7, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
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