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Vous m'avez dit, tel soir, des paroles si belles Que sans doute les fleurs, qui se penchaient vers nous, Soudain nous ont aimés et que l'une d'entre elles, Pour nous toucher tous deux, tomba sur nos genoux. Vous me parliez des temps prochains où nos années, Comme des fruits trop mûrs, se laisseraient cueillir ; Comment éclaterait le glas des destinées, Comment on s'aimerait, en se sentant vieillir. Votre voix m'enlaçait comme une chère étreinte, Et votre coeur brûlait si tranquillement beau Qu'en ce moment, j'aurais pu voir s'ouvrir sans crainte Les tortueux chemins qui vont vers le tombeau.
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Text Authorship:
- by Émile Verhaeren (1855 - 1916), no title, appears in Les heures d'après-midi, no. 29, first published 1905 [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 Nadia Boulanger (1887 - 1979) and by Stéphane Raoul Pugno (1852 - 1914), "Vous m'avez dit", 1909, published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from Les heures claires, no. 3, Paris, Éd. "Au Ménestrel" Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques de Fontenailles (1888 - 1914), "Heure claire", 1913, published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from 14 Mélodies, no. 11, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Les heures d'après-midi", op. 50 no. 4 [ high voice and piano ], from Les heures claires, les heures d'après midi, les heures du soir, no. 4, Gand, Éd. Struyf [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Vous m'avez dit, tel soir", 1913, published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les heures d'après-midi, no. 4, Paris, Éd. "Au Ménestrel" Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882 - 1955), "Vous m'avez dit tel soir", published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucie Vellère (1896 - 1966), "Vous m'avez dit, tel soi", 1940 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Vredenburg (1904 - 1976), "Vous m'avez dit", op. 2 (1927) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-11-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 98
You spoke to me, that evening, with words of such beauty it seemed that the flowers, as they leant towards us loved us suddenly, and one of them dropped and settled on our knees, so as to touch us both. You spoke of the times ahead when our years, like over-ripe fruit, would let themselves be harvested; how the knell of destinies would crack, how we would love each other as we felt ourselves grow old. Your voice was holding me like a beloved embrace and your heart was burning with such tranquil beauty that in that moment I nearly saw the paths open without fear, the tortuous paths that lead towards the grave.
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- a text in French (Français) by Émile Verhaeren (1855 - 1916), no title, appears in Les heures d'après-midi, no. 29, first published 1905
This text was added to the website: 2018-01-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 114