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by Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (1834 - 1899)

Le papillon s'est envolé
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Le papillon s'est envolé,
La fleur se balance avec grâce.
Ma belle où voyez-vous la trace,
La trace de l'amant ailé ?
Ah ! Le papillon s'est envolé !

Le flot est rapide et changeant,
Toujours sillonnant l'eau profonde.
La barque passe, et toujours l'onde 
Efface le sillon d'argent.

Le papillon, c'est votre amour.
La fleur et l'onde, c'est votre âme
Que rien n'émeut, que rien n'entame,
Où rien ne reste plus d'un jour.
Le papillon, c'est votre amour.

Ma belle où voyez-vous la trace,
La trace de l'amant ailé ?
La fleur se balance avec grâce...
Le papillon s'est envolé !

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Text Authorship:

  • by Édouard Jules Henri Pailleron (1834 - 1899), "Chanson", appears in Amours et haines, in 10. Rimes et rythmes, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Michel Lévy, first published 1868 [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 Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Tarentelle", op. 21 no. 20 (1872), published 1873 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 20, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Émile Paladilhe (1844 - 1926), "Le papillon s'est envolé", 1873 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant, no. 17, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 98

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