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by Joséphin Soulary (1815 - 1891)

Les deux cortèges
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Deux cortèges se sont rencontrés à l’église.
L’un est morne : — il conduit le cercueil d’un enfant ;
Une femme le suit, presque folle, étouffant
Dans sa poitrine en feu le sanglot qui la brise.

L’autre, c’est un baptême ! — au bras qui le défend
Un nourrisson gazouille une note indécise ;
Sa mère, lui tendant le doux sein qu’il épuise,
L’embrasse tout entier d’un regard triomphant !

On baptise, on absout, et le temple se vide.
Les deux femmes, alors, se croisant sous l’abside,
Échangent un coup d’œil aussitôt détourné ;

Et — merveilleux retour qu’inspire la prière —
La jeune mère pleure en regardant la bière,
La femme qui pleurait sourit au nouveau-né !

Confirmed with Œuvres poétiques de Joséphin Soulary, Alphonse Lemerre, éditeur, no date, page 177 (first part).


Text Authorship:

  • by Joséphin Soulary (1815 - 1891), "Les deux cortèges", appears in Œuvres poétiques en 2 volumes, in 1. Sonnets 1847-1871, in 7. Papillons noirs, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1880 [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 Mathieu Crickboom (1871 - 1947), "Les deux cortèges", op. 12 (Dix Mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 1 (1911) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Jules Laurent Anacharsis Duprato (1827 - 1892), "Les deux cortèges" [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Livre des Sonnets, no. 4, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The two processions", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-08
Line count: 14
Word count: 111

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