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by Édouard Plouvier (1821 - 1876)

Le Retour à Bysance
Language: French (Français) 
Refrain:
 Salut ! salut ! Ciel d’espérance
 De l’orient vermeil, Salut !
 Salut ! salut ! Noble Byzance,
 Beau pays du soleil, Salut !

Voilà les hauts platanes
Qui me voyaient grandir
Et voilà les tartanes
Où j’aimais à courir,
Voilà la promenade
Sous les cieux éclatants,
Voilà la colonnade
Du palais des sultans.
(Refrain)

Voilà les sycomores
Où j’allais si souvent
Où j’allais dès l’aurore
Prier d’un cœur fervent !
Voilà bien la chaumière
Où j’allais le matin
Gaiement avec ma mère
Soulager l’orphelin.
(Refrain)

Bords chéris que mes larmes
Regrettaient chaque jour
Vous avez plus de charmes
A l’instant du retour.
C’est bien là ma patrie
Son climat enchanteur
Je renais à la vie,
Je renais au bonheur !
(Refrain)

Text Authorship:

  • by Édouard Plouvier (1821 - 1876) [author's text not yet checked 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 Luigi Bordèse (1815 - 1886), "Le Retour à Bysance", published [1869] [ vocal duet with piano ], Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: François Le Roux [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2021-08-29
Line count: 32
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