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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

La Source
Language: French (Français)  after the Swedish (Svenska) 
Sur les bords de la forêt sombre
J'ai vu la source du vallon
Qui lentement coule dans l'ombre
Et s'en fuit obscure et sans nom

L'été sondoux et frais murmure 
Souvent attire le passant
Qui savoure son onde pure
Et s'éloigne en la bénissant 

A travers les jours du voyage
Qui nuos mènent vers le tombeau
Puisse ma vie être l'image
De cette obscure souce d'eau

Je laisse aux riches de la terre
Un sort plus grand plus envié
Pour moi mon Dieu laisse moi faire
Quel que bien et vivre oublié

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist  [text unavailable]
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset (1828 - 1907), as Clémence de Grandval, Vicomtesse, "La Source", published [1851] [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Henry Lemoine & Fils [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-07-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 92

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