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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

La vieille Croix
Language: French (Français) 
Au bas de la route inclinée,
Où se croisent quatre chemins,
Comme un grand fantôme sans mains
Se dresse une croix surannée.

Mais la farouche abandonnée
Brave encor bien des lendemains,
Au bas de la route inclinée
Où se croisent quatre chemins.

Et la croix manchote et minée,
De l’âge des vieux parchemins,
Épouvante les yeux humains
Comme une potence damnée,
Au bas de la route inclinée.

Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels, Paris, Charpentier, 1883, pages 230-231.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "La vieille Croix", 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), "La vieille Croix" [ voice and piano ], from Rouges et Noires, vingt-six mélodies, paroles de Maurice Rollinat, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-03-26
Line count: 13
Word count: 67

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