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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and possibly by Maurice Boukai

Stances à Manon
Language: French (Français) 
Manon voici le soleil 
C’est le printemps c’est l’éveil
C’est l’amour maître des choses
C’est le nid dans [les buissons]1
Viens éprouver [les frissons]2
[Des blés]3 de l’or et des roses

Viens l’univers est à nous
Et je suis à tes genoux
Pout toi se donne le fête
Dans ce sompteux décor
Prends mon âme prends mon corps
Que ta volonté soit faite

Verse verse [des]4 baisers
A mes sens inapaisés
Jusqu’à la dernière goutte
J’aime ton cœur inhumain
Tu me trahiras demain
Mais ce soir je t’aurai toute

Laisse-moi dans tes grands yeux
L’infini des cieux
Et l’ivresse de ton âme
Laisse-moi dans tes bras blancs
Bercer mes rêves troublants
Et mon désir qui se pâme

Qu’importe les trahisons
Des [femmes]5 que nous [aimons]6
Si [ces femmes]7 sont jolies
Oublions les vains discours
Aimons-nous les jours sont courts
Et c’est l’heure des foiles.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Strong 

G. Strong sets stanzas 1, 4, 3, 5

View original text (without footnotes)

Confirmed with a manuscript, available online at https://raddo-ethnodoc.com/paysdelaloire/document/3261079 [external source]. The text is not attributed to a specific author in this source.

1 Strong: "le buisson"
2 Strong: "le frisson"
3 Strong: "Du bleu"
4 Strong: "tes"
5 Strong: "lèvres"
6 Strong: "baisons"
7 Strong: "les lèvres"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, "Stances à Manon", written 1921 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
  • possibly by Maurice Boukai , "Stances à Manon", written 1921 [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 George Templeton Strong (1856 - 1948), "Stances à Manon", 1931, stanzas 1, 4, 3, 5 [ voice and piano ], note: the manuscript attributes the text to Maurice Boukai [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-08-07
Line count: 30
Word count: 151

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