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by Jean Reboul (1796 - 1864)

Tout n'est qu'images fugitives
Language: French (Français) 
Tout n'est qu'images fugitives;
coupe d'amertume ou de miel,
chansons joyeuses ou plaintives
abusent des lèvres fictives;
il n'est rien de vrai, que le ciel!
Tout soleil nait, s'élève et tombe;
tout trône est artificiel,
la plus haute gloire succombe,
tout s'épanouit pour la tombe,
et rien n'est brillant que le ciel!
Navigateur d'un jour d'orage,
jouet des vagues, le mortel,
repoussé de chaque rivage,
ne voit qu'écueils sur son passage,
et rien n'est calme que le ciel!

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•   E. Tinel 

E. Tinel sets lines 1-10

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Text Authorship:

  • by Jean Reboul (1796 - 1864), "Soupir" [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 René de Boisdeffre (1838 - 1906), "Soupir", op. 3 no. 3 (<<1867) [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, recueil 1, no. 3, Éd. G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Tout n'est qu'images fugitives", op. 40 (Six Mélodies pour chant et piano = Zes Melodiën voor Zang & Piano) no. 4, published 1892, lines 1-10 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883), "Tout n'est qu'images fugitives", WWV 58 (1839) [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 78

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