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Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De main en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
Nous sommes de Lormont les blanches demoiselles.
La brise nous soulève et nous porte en avant ;
On dirait qu'à nos pieds la danse met des ailes
Pour nous jeter au vent !
Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De mains en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
Avec sa grande voix la mer nous accompagne.
La mer qui bat la grève et qui rompt les roseaux,
En nous voyant d'en bas planer sur la montagne,
Nous prend pour des oiseaux.
Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De main en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
Allez, la mer ! Allez, navire enflé de voiles ;
La danse vous salue au fond de vos couleurs !
Allez ! Pour vous pousser vers les bonnes étoiles,
Nous vous jetons des fleurs.
Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De main en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
Regardez, regardez la montagne enflammée !
C'est Lormont qui s'allume au coucher du soleil.
Regardez sur son front tourner la ronde aimée,
Comme un cercle vermeil !
Poursuivant les nuées
De nos chansons,
De main en main nouées,
Dansons ! Dansons !
C. Franck sets stanzas 1-4, 8-9
Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.
Note: a footnote is associated with the title in the 1973 edition as follows: "Les coteaux de Lormont, en face de Bordeaux."
Text Authorship:
- by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les Danses de Lormont" [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 César Franck (1822 - 1890), "Les danses de Lormont", CFF 165 no. 4, FWV 89 no. 4 (1888), published 1923, stanzas 1-4,8-9 [ vocal duet (or chorus) and piano ], from 6 Duos pour voix égales, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Enoch
Score: IMSLP [external link] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg) , "De dansen van Lormont", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , "The Dances of Lormont", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Lidy van Noordenburg
This text was added to the website: 2008-10-26
Line count: 36
Word count: 185
Linked like a chain By our songs Joined hand in hand Let’s dance! Let’s dance! We are the white ladies of Lormont The breeze lifts us and carries us forward As if dancing puts wings on our feet Casting us into the wind, casting us into the wind. Linked like a chain By our songs Joined hand in hand Let’s dance! Let’s dance! With its great voice, the sea accompanies us, The sea that strikes the bank and breaks the reeds Seeing us from below soaring over the mountain, Takes us for birds. Linked like a chain By our songs Joined hand in hand Let’s dance! Let’s dance! [... ... ... ...] Linked like a chain By our songs Joined hand in hand Let’s dance! Let’s dance! Look, look at the blazing mountain, It is Lormont illuminated by the setting sun, Look, on its precipice the circle of love spins around Like a vermilion circle, like a vermillion circle. Linked like a chain By our songs Joined hand in hand Let’s dance! Let’s dance!
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2024 by Amy Pfrimmer, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les Danses de Lormont"
This text was added to the website: 2024-02-05
Line count: 36
Word count: 170