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by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 - 1794)

Le Voyage
Language: French (Français) 
Partir avant le jour, à tâtons, sans voir goutte,
Sans songer seulement à demander sa route ;
Aller de chute en chute, et, se traînant ainsi,
Faire un tiers du chemin jusqu'à près de midi ;
Voir sur sa tête alors s'amasser les nuages,
Dans un sable mouvant précipiter ses pas,
Courir, en essuyant orages sur orages,
Vers un but incertain où l'on n'arrive pas ;
Détrempé vers le soir, chercher une retraite,
Arriver haletant, se coucher, s'endormir :
On appelle cela naître, vivre et mourir.
La volonté de Dieu soit faite !

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 - 1794), "Le Voyage", appears in Fables [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 Émile Paladilhe (1844 - 1926), "Le Voyage", 1887 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pierre-E.-L. Rousseau (1889 - 1939), as Pierre Vellones, "Le Voyage", op. 28 no. 4 (1929), published 1930 [ voice and piano ], from Fables de Florian, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
  • by George Templeton-Strong (1856 - 1948), "Le Voyage", 1929, published 1929, from Trois chants pour voix moyenne avec accompagnement de piano, no. 3, Genève, Édition Henn [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Marcel Trémois (1891 - 1974), "Le Voyage", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, 1er recueil, no. 1, Éd. Salabert [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-10-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 88

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