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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

La Parole
Language: French (Français) 
Avec le masque du mensonge
La parole suit son chemin,
Rampe aujourd’hui, vole demain,
Se raccourcit ou bien s’allonge.

Elle empoigne comme une main
Et se dérobe comme un songe.
Avec le masque du mensonge
La parole suit son chemin.

Cœurs de gaze et de parchemin,
Chacun la boit comme une éponge,
Et jusqu’au fond du gouffre humain
Elle s’insinue et se plonge
Avec le masque du mensonge.

Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Les Névroses, Paris, Fasquelle, 1917, page 31.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "La Parole", 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 Florentine Mulsant (b. 1962), "La Parole", op. 61 (Quatre Mélodies) no. 2 (2015), published 2017 [ high voice and piano ], Kassel, Furore Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "La Parole" [ voice and piano ], from Harmonies. Dix mélodies, paroles de Maurice Rollinat, no. 8 [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: 68

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