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by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)

Sur la falaise
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Les papillons bleus, les papillons blancs,
Sur les prés mouillés et les blés tremblants,
   Vont battant des ailes.
C'est sous le soleil un frémissement
Qui fait s'incliner les fleurs doucement
   Sur leurs tiges frêles.

Contre les rochers, avec des sanglots, 
En bas, l’Océan vient briser ses flots 
  Brodés d’étincelles.
Là-haut, sans souci des flots onduleux, 
Les papillons blancs, les papillons bleus 
  Vont battant des ailes.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Sur la falaise" [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 Mathieu Crickboom (1871 - 1947), "Sur la falaise", op. 12 (Dix Mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 6 (1916) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Marie Damaschino (1850 - 1921), as Mario Foscarina, "Sur la falaise", 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Amédée Dutacq (1848 - 1929), "Sur la falaise" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Sur la falaise", op. 42 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung) no. 1, published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel.
      • Go to the text. [Note: the text is not in the database yet.]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "On the clifftop", copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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This text was added to the website: 2021-02-03
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