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Vent fou qui voles où tu veux, De fleur en fleur, de femme en femme, Vent qui caresses les cheveux, Vent libre, je voudrais ton âme. Vent qui murmures dans les bois, Comme un chœur à bouche fermée, [Certains soirs]1 je voudrais ta voix, Pour parler à [ma]2 bien-aimée ; [Et]3 vent qui soulèves les mers, Qui hurles le long des rivages, Je voudrais dans mes jours amers Parfois aussi tes cris sauvages, Pour y jeter tous mes sanglots, Toutes mes colères, ma haine, Et pour fouetter comme des flots L'océan de la foule humaine !
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Jean Lahor, L'Illusion, 3rd edition, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, page 107.
1 Maurice: "Certain soir"2 Maurice: "la"
3 Maurice: "Ô"
Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "La chanson du vent", written 1868, appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1875 [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 Joseph Béesau (1871 - 1940), "La chanson du vent", published 1920 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 7, Paris, Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guy Bernard , "Le Vent", <<1909 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies, poésie de Jean Lahor, no. 2, Caen, Éd. Bonnaventure & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by François Berthet (1873 - 1956), "Chanson du vent", op. 3 no. 1 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Joanin [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolphe Biarent (1871 - 1916), "La chanson du vent" [ voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "La chanson du vent", published 1912 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux poésies de Jean Lahor, no. 1, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre, Baron de Maurice (1868 - 1936), "La chanson du vent", op. 4, published 1897/8 [ voice, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Qi Feng Wu) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2005-01-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 95
Crazy wind that flies wherever you want, From flower to flower, from woman to woman, Wind that caresses hair, Free wind, I'd like your soul. Wind that whispers in the woods, Like a closed-mouthed chorus, Some evenings I'd like your voice, To speak to my beloved; And wind that lifts the seas, That howls along the shores, I would like in my bitter days Sometimes also your wild cries, To throw in all my sobs, All my anger, my hatred, And to whip like waves The ocean of the human crowd!
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "La chanson du vent", written 1868, appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1875
This text was added to the website: 2023-07-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 91