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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

En regardant sauter les geais
Language: French (Français) 
En regardant sauter les geais
Sur les hautes branches d’un chêne,
Délivré du spleen qui m’enchaîne,
Béatement je m’allongeais.

Oh ! comme alors je me plongeais
Dans la quiétude sereine,
En regardant sauter les geais
Sur les hautes branches d’un chêne !

Et, sans traiter un des sujets
Dont j’avais la cervelle pleine,
J’attendais que la nuit d’ébène
Eût effacé tous les objets,
En regardant sauter les geais.

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Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels, Paris, Charpentier, 1883, pages 135-136.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "La Sieste", appears in Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels [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), "En regardant sauter les geais" [ voice and piano ], from Bucoliques, dix mélodies, paroles de Maurice Rollinat, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-03-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 66

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