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by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)

J’aime ! — voilà le mot que la nature...
Language: French (Français) 
J’aime ! — [voilà]1 le mot que la nature entière
Crie au vent qui l’emporte, à l’oiseau qui le suit !
Sombre et dernier soupir que poussera la terre
Quand elle tombera dans l’éternelle nuit !
Oh ! vous le murmurez dans vos sphères sacrées,
Étoiles du matin, ce mot triste et charmant !
La plus faible de vous, quand Dieu vous a créées,
A voulu traverser les plaines éthérées,
Pour chercher le soleil, son immortel amant.
Elle s’est élancée au sein des nuits profondes.
Mais une autre l’aimait elle-même ; — et les mondes
Se sont mis en voyage autour du firmament.

G. Doin sets lines 1-9

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1 Doin: "voici"; further changes may exist not shown above.

Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), no title, appears in Poésies nouvelles, in Rolla, no. 5, one stanza excerpted from a much longer poem [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 Gaston Doin (1878 - 1962), "J'aime", published 1950, lines 1-9 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies romantiques, no. 6, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-01-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 98

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