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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

La Mort au printemps
Language: French (Français) 
La nature, au printemps, semble par sa féerie
Glorifier tous les trépas qu’elle a conçus.
Passe un enterrement ? elle répand dessus
Son parfum, sa musique et sa grâce fleurie.

On dirait qu’elle veut que chaque arbre sourie
Aux mignonnets cercueils des tout petits Jésus,
Que ces panaches, d’ombre et de vapeur tissus,
Célèbrent la candeur de leur âme inflétrie.

Alors, son beau soleil qui fait pâlir les cierges,
Nimbant aux chemins creux les convois blancs des vierges,
Elle fond ses couleurs à celles de leur mort.

Et leurs bières, hélas ! si roides et si closes,
Harmonieusement, passent dans le décor
Des cerisiers neigeux et des pommiers tout roses.

Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Paysages et paysans, Paris, Fasquelle, 1899, page 307.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "La Mort au printemps", appears in Paysages et paysans [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), "La Mort au printemps" [ voice and piano ], from Harmonies. Dix mélodies, paroles de Maurice Rollinat, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-03-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 108

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