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by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)

O vous, vous dont l'amour ne fut qu'une...
Language: French (Français) 
O vous, vous dont l'amour ne fut qu'une étincelle
Pâle comme l'éclair que la roche recèle,
Qui n'avez ici bas connu que le Désir,
Ce faible enfant qui meurt dans les bras du Plaisir,
Ou la satiété, ce vieillard sans courage
Dont tôt ou tard l'oubli recueille l'héritage
Savez-(vous) ce que c'est qu'un simple et chaste amour ?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), no title, appears in Poésies posthumes, in Fragments de poésie, no. 23 [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 Noël Lee (1924 - 2013), "Interrogation", 2000, published 2000, first performed 2000 [ high voice and piano ], from Interrogations: Quatre mélodies sur des poésies de Musset, no. 2, Édition de l'auteur [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-02-27
Line count: 7
Word count: 57

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