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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

L’Espérance
Language: French (Français) 
L’Espérance est un merle blanc
Dont nous sommes la triste haie :
Elle voltige sur la plaie
Et siffle au bord du cœur tremblant.

Mais son vol n’est qu’un faux semblant ;
Sa sérénade n’est pas vraie.
L’Espérance est un merle blanc
Dont nous sommes la triste haie.

Et tandis que, rapide ou lent,
Le Désespoir est une orfraie
Dont le cri certain nous effraie,
Et dont le bec va nous criblant,
L’Espérance est un merle blanc.

Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Les Névroses, Paris, Fasquelle, 1917, page 41.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "L’Espérance", appears in Les névroses, in 1. Les Âmes [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 Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "L’Espérance" [ voice and piano ], from Harmonies. Dix mélodies, paroles de Maurice Rollinat, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-03-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 75

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